Re: Speeding up 'bulk' delete (and/or seeing what is going on while the delete is being processed)

From: Steve T <steve(at)retsol(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>, PostGreSQL <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Speeding up 'bulk' delete (and/or seeing what is going on while the delete is being processed)
Date: 2009-08-27 18:11:49
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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

DDI: 01323 488548

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