Thanks Greg, I appreciate the help - Just updated the module with your birthday edition. Let's hope this fixes the issue!

-- Allen

allen@centernetworks.com wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: "Greg Knaddison - GVS" Greg@growingventuresolutions.com Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:19am To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Issue with a Query that's running wild

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Allen Stern allen@centernetworks.com wrote:

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My hoster is telling me that the query below is processing 52 million records every time it's run.

It shouldn't be run very often...

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Any ideas on where this query is, what it does or how to fix it would very much be appreciated.

That's a query from Pathauto that is used to do the "bulk update" of aliases. It only runs when you do a "bulk update" which is a maintenance procedure that should only be run if you change your Pathauto patterns or install Pathauto on an existing site that had a lot of content without aliases.

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I have not changed anything in the installation in forever.

Apparently you haven't ;) The performance of this query was improved in the version of Pathauto released on June 26th (my birthday, so I remember it well).

Regards, Greg