Re: Poor Delete performance

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Matthew <matt(at)ctlno(dot)com>, Bill Huff <bhuff(at)colltech(dot)com>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Poor Delete performance
Date: 2001-03-12 23:10:08
Message-ID: 7477.984438608@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I've applied a patch for this problem to current sources. The
improvement was more than I expected --- a test case involving
deleting 80000 tuples from a foreign-key-referencing table dropped
from ~15min to ~8sec. Insertion of a large number of tuples in one
transaction sped up quite a bit too.

If you are in a hurry for a fix, you could probably adapt the diff
to 7.0.3 sources:
http://www.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/trigger.c.diff?r1=1.86&r2=1.87&f=c

regards, tom lane

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