Re: delete is extremely slow

From: Emi Lu <emilu(at)encs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
To: Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: delete is extremely slow
Date: 2006-05-26 14:30:19
Message-ID: 447710FB.8030703@encs.concordia.ca
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>>Tried to run:
>>
>>delete from tableA where id <600000;
>>
>>It is extremely slow.
>>
>>id is integer and also the primary key. tableA has around 90000 records.
>>
>>(I do not want to run truncate since I have some foreign key constraint
>>setup based on tableA. Besides not all data I want to delete; only part
>>of them).
>>
>>
>>
>
>Since you have some FK constrains on A, so delete each line of A will
>confirm that it is not depended, which involves a lookup on the dependent
>table. Do you have indexes built on these dependents?
>

No, I do not have indexes setup for those dependents.

If I setup index for those columns, it will speed up the deletion, right?

Thank you.

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