That does make the query work a bit faster. Thanks!
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 09:42 +0700, Bungsuputra Linan wrote:
Hi Ken, I used to have the same problem. In my computer, using date_part in WHERE clause will always slow down the system when the table has plenty of rows. My suggestion is try to change the query to: ... WHERE dxdate >= '2001-01-01'; I hope this helps. Regards, bungsu ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Hill To: Postgres Help Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:48 AM Subject: [SQL] Slow update SQL I'm experiencing a very slow query. The table contains 611,564 rows of data. I vaccumed the table: VACUUM ANALYZE ncccr10; SELECT count(*) FROM ncccr10; count -------- 611564 (1 row) When I try to analyze the query plan with: EXPLAIN ANALYZE UPDATE ncccr10 SET key = facilityno||'-'|| lastname||'-'|| sex||'-'|| ssno||'-'|| birthdate||'-'|| primarysit||'-'|| dxdate||'-'|| morphology3 WHERE date_part('year',dxdate) > '2000'; The query just never finishes (even 1 hour later). The colum key100 is indexed, and I'm setting the value of this column from other columns. Why is this so slow?