Re: Running update in chunks?

On Monday, January 21, 2013, Tim Uckun wrote:

> > First off, what does it say for rows affected? (Hint, if you really
> > are using a default configuration and it doesn't say 0 rows
> > affected, please show us the actual query used.)
>
> update imports set make_id = null
>
> Query returned successfully: 98834 rows affected, 49673 ms execution time.
>
>
> vacuum analyze imports
>
> Query returned successfully with no result in 4138 ms.
>
> VACUUM FULL imports;
>

What if you do:
alter table cars.imports set (fillfactor=50);
Before the vacuum full, and then try the update again?

Cheers,

Jeff