Re: [GENERAL] 7.4Beta

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Childs <Blue(dot)Dragon(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.4Beta
Date: 2003-08-15 05:20:31
Message-ID: 20030814221643.R6090-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>
> > > I throw last nights backup at it. Data went in in about 1/2 an hour then
> the
> > > constraints went in and they took at age. about 2 hours.....
> > > Is there anyway to speed up the database constraint code? Because quite
> > > frankly at the current speed your probably better off without the
> > > constraints.... (Same problem with 7.3 come to think about it.)
>
> I can also attest to the horrendously long time it takes to restore the ADD
> FOREIGN KEY section...

That really needs to be rewritten to do a single check over the table
rather than running the constraint for every row. I keep meaning to get
around to it and never actually do. :( I'm not sure that in practice
you'll get a better plan at restore time depending on what the default
statistics give you.

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