Re: slow deletes on pgsql 7.4

hi,
Thanks for the answer.
I have double checked that all the foreign key that are referencing "id" on
scenario are indexed.
I have even vacuum analyze scenario table and all the tables that referenced
this table.
Something that is interesting is that: it only happens for a certain values.

ie. delete from scenario where id='1023' is very fast, but delete from
scenario where id='1099' is running forever.

Any ideas?

J

On 4/25/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Junaili Lie" <junaili(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > we encounter issues when deleting from a table based on id (primary
> key). O=
> > n
> > certain 'id', it took forever to delete and the i/o is 100% busy.
>
> Almost always, if delete is slow when selecting the same rows is fast,
> it's because you've got a trigger performance problem --- most commonly,
> there are foreign keys referencing this table from other tables and you
> don't have the referencing columns indexed.
>
> regards, tom lane
>