"Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net> writes:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 02:16, Mauri Sahlberg wrote:
>> It just took about three quarters of a hour to delete 6500 rows!
> Do you have any foreign key references that are of mismatched types
> involved?
Specifically, what other tables reference this one? Are their
referencing columns of identical types, and *do they have indexes*?
I'm betting on lack of index myself; that's the only FK mistake that
hurts you only at primary-key-delete time.
regards, tom lane