Re: Constraint question

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Enzo Daddario <enzo(at)pienetworks(dot)com>, PGADMIN <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Constraint question
Date: 2006-05-15 15:12:49
Message-ID: 20060515151249.GE26212@pervasive.com
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On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:50:50PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Enzo Daddario <enzo(at)pienetworks(dot)com> writes:
> > I am now required the remove thousands of obsolete records from table
> > "X" and even though I have removed all related rows in all related
> > tables, the deletion of rows in table "X" is taking WAY TOO LONG.
>
> You need to put indexes on the referencing columns. Then start a fresh
> session for doing the actual deletes (FK check plans are usually cached
> per-session).

Would SET CONSTRAINTS ... DEFERRED not help, or does it still use the
same machinery to do the checking, regardless of how much data there is
to check?
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