Tom/Alan,
Thanks. 300,000+ rows deleted in under 10 minutes (may have been a lot
less - I went to get a coffee, came back and it was done).
Thanks again.
PS Is there a reason that PostgreSql doesn't automatically create the
foreign key indexes?
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 13:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca> writes:
> > Do you have other foreign keys into supplierProduct on other tables where
> > the relevant columns aren't indexed? Slow deletes are usually caused by
> > that.
>
> Yeah. The query plan itself looks perfectly reasonable, so I'm
> suspecting the problem is something happening subsequent to the row
> deletions --- like foreign key constraint checking.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Steve Tucknott
ReTSol Ltd
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