Re: Delete query takes exorbitant amount of time

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: Karim Nassar <karim(dot)nassar(at)acm(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Delete query takes exorbitant amount of time
Date: 2005-03-28 10:21:03
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On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 07:05 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Karim Nassar wrote:
> > Some improvement. Even better once it's cached. Row estimate didn't
> > change. Is this the best I can expect? Is there any other optimizations
> > I am missing?
>
> I'm not sure, really. Running a seq scan for each removed row in the
> referenced table doesn't seem like a particularly good plan in general
> though, especially if the average number of rows being referenced isn't
> on the order of 500k per value. I don't know what to look at next though.
>

Karim, please...

run the EXPLAIN after doing
SET enable_seqscan = off

Thanks,

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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