Re: Fast way to delete big table?

From: "Charles Clavadetscher" <clavadetscher(at)swisspug(dot)org>
To: "'hmzha2'" <Haiming(dot)Zhang(at)redflex(dot)com(dot)au>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fast way to delete big table?
Date: 2016-05-17 05:47:02
Message-ID: 00a301d1afff$8f3cc1e0$adb645a0$@swisspug.org
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Hello

> The reason I dont have condition when selecting is it's faster than having.
> Because my aim is to go through every row, find values of few columns and append them to a summary table. Then
> delete the row from the table. So find the rows on the fly is fine for me.
>
> I have tried to reduce the number of rows to be processed, even I process 1 row in production machine, it takes 24
> hours to finish.

This is quite weird... It there any other process locking the record or the table?
Bye
Charles

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