Re: How do FKs work?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How do FKs work?
Date: 2004-10-10 00:48:43
Message-ID: 20041009214824.A54093@ganymede.hub.org
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On thing I failed to note here, that is probably critical ... its a 7.3
database ...

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>> Have a table with two FKs on it ... 2 different fields in the table point
>> to the same field in another table ...
>
>> When I do an 'EXPLAIN ANALYZE DELETE FROM table WHERE field = #;', it
>> never comes back ... or, at lesat, takes a *very* long time ...
>
> Do you have indexes on the referencing columns? Are they exactly the
> same datatype as the referenced column? You can get really awful plans
> for the FK-checking queries if not.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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