Re: Simple delete takes hours

On 05.03.2005 00:24 PFC wrote:

> Every time a row is removed from pwd_name, the ON DELETE CASCADE
> trigger will look in pwd_name_rev if there is a row to delete... Does
> it have an index on pwd_name_rev( rev_of ) ? If not you'll get a full
> table scan for every row deleted in pwd_name...

Yes that's it, thanks a lot!

pwdcheck=# explain analyze delete from pwd_name where description=1;
QUERY PLAN
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seq Scan on pwd_name (cost=0.00..116571.15 rows=1774250 width=6)
(actual time=9526.671..21957.920 rows=543348 loops=1)
Filter: (description = 1)
Total runtime: 35555.749 ms
(3 rows)

Is it possible to get fired triggers/called stored procedures and things
like that in an 'explain' ?

To find out why the delete is that slow I did:
pwdcheck=# explain analyze delete from pwd_name where id in
pwdcheck-# (select id from pwd_name where description=1 limit 10);

There was no hint that every deleted row leads to a full table scan.

Thomas