>>>>> "GS" == Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
GS> At a guess the foreign key relationships you're enforcing don't
GS> have indexes to help them. If they do perhaps postgres isn't using
GS> them.
Or, if you do have indexes, they've bloated to be way too big and are
overwhelming your shared buffers. Reindex them and see it it helps.
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