Re: Lengthy deletion

On 29/11/2011, at 09:13, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Herouth Maoz" <herouth(at)unicell(dot)co(dot)il> writes:
>> I was instructed to delete old records from one of the tables in our production system. The deletion took hours and I had to stop it in mid-operation and reschedule it as a night job. But then I had to do the same when I got up in the morning and it was still running.
>
>> I got an interesting clue, though, when I canceled the deletion the second time around. I got the following error message:
>
>> Cancel request sent
>> ERROR: canceling statement due to user request
>> CONTEXT: SQL statement "SELECT 1 FROM ONLY "public"."sent_messages" x WHERE $1 OPERATOR(pg_catalog.=) "subscription_id" FOR SHARE OF x"
>
> Yup, that's a clue all right. I'll bet a nickel that you don't
> have an index on the foreign key's referencing column (ie,
> sent_messages.subscription_id). That means each delete in
> the referenced table has to seqscan the referencing table to
> see if the delete would result in an FK violation.

Makes sense. But shouldn't that be figured into the EXPLAIN plan?

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