Re: Delete query takes exorbitant amount of time

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Karim A Nassar <Karim(dot)Nassar(at)NAU(dot)EDU>, 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: 2005-03-29 16:38:28
Message-ID: 20050329083336.G58020@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> > If there were some way to pass a "limit" into SPI_prepare that was treated
> > similarly to a LIMIT clause for planning purposes but didn't actually
> > change the output plan to only return that number of rows, we could use
> > that.
>
> Hmm ... the planner does have the ability to do that sort of thing (we
> use it for cursors). SPI_prepare doesn't expose the capability.
> Perhaps adding a SPI_prepare variant that does expose it would be the
> quickest route to a solution.
>
> I get a headache every time I look at the RI triggers ;-). Do they

Me too, honestly.

> always know at the time of preparing a plan which way it will be used?

I believe so. I think each saved plan pretty much lives for a single
trigger type/argument set and is basically used in only one place.

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