Neil Whelchel <neil.whelc...@gmail.com> wrote:
 
> crash:~# time psql -U test test -c "UPDATE log SET
> raw_data=raw_data+1"
> UPDATE 10050886
> 
> real    14m13.802s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s
> 
> crash:~# time psql -U test test -c "SELECT count(*) FROM log;"
>   count   
> ----------
>  10050886
> (1 row)
> 
> real    3m32.757s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s
> 
> Just to be sure:
> crash:~# time psql -U test test -c "SELECT count(*) FROM log;"
>   count   
> ----------
>  10050886
> (1 row)
> 
> real    2m38.631s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s
> 
> It looks like cache knocked about a minute off
 
That's unlikely to be caching, since you just updated the rows. 
It's much more likely to be one or both of rewriting the rows as you
read them to set hint bits or competing with autovacuum.
 
The large increase after the update probably means you went from a
table which was fully cached to something larger than the total
cache.
 
-Kevin

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