Re: Extremely Slow Cascade Delete Operation

I try to add index to tables.

(please refer to http://sites.google.com/site/yanchengcheok/Home/question.txt)

Database is designed in the following graphical view

(please refer to http://sites.google.com/site/yanchengcheok/Home/question.png)

Here is the setting of my database. All using default except syncrhonous_commit = off.

(please refer to http://sites.google.com/site/yanchengcheok/Home/database.PNG)

My database size is as follow :

SemiconductorInspection=# \timing on
Timing is on.
SemiconductorInspection=# SELECT count(*) FROM lot;
count
-------
2
(1 row)

Time: 1.003 ms
SemiconductorInspection=# SELECT count(*) FROM unit;
count
--------
206363
(1 row)

Time: 92.766 ms
SemiconductorInspection=# SELECT count(*) FROM measurement;
count
---------
1650904
(1 row)

Time: 355.161 ms
SemiconductorInspection=#

I simply run a delete operation :

delete from lot where lot_id = 3;

It takes TWO hours and never able to return!

I even run VACUUM, with options FULL + FREEZE + ANALYZE

but it does not help at all.

Is there other optimization steps I had missed out?

Thanks and Regards
Yan Cheng CHEOK

--- On Wed, 1/13/10, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

> From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Extremely Slow Cascade Delete Operation
> To: "Yan Cheng Cheok" <yccheok(at)yahoo(dot)com>
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 7:01 PM
> On 13/01/2010 4:09 PM, Yan Cheng
> Cheok wrote:
> > I have 3 tables - lot, unit and measurement
> >
> > 1 lot is having relationship to many unit.
> > 1 unit is having relationship to many measurement.
> > delete cascade is being used among their relationship
> >
>
> > SemiconductorInspection=# delete from lot where lot_id
> = 2;
>
> Are there indexes on fk_lot_id and fk_unit_id ? If not, a
> DELETE from lot will cause a seqscan of unit for affected
> units, and if any must be deleted each will cause a seqscan
> of measurement for affected measurements. That's going to
> get ugly fast.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
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