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> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 00:10:10 -0800
> From: suhas.b@verse.in
> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: [PERFORM] CREATING INDEX on column having null values
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I have a partitioned table(partitioned on date) .There are about 1 million
> insertions per day. There is a column called mess_id. This column is updated
> .But update query is taking huge time.When i checked , this column is not
> unique, and most of the time its having null . Say everyday out of 1
> million only 20K rows are not null for this column ;.Insertions are
> happening very fast , but update is very slow.
>
> How to optimize my update query? Is it good to create index on that
> column .. i m worried about my insertions getting slow
>
> Rgrds
> Suhas
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