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From: Charles Duffy <charles.duffy@gmail.com>
To: Jessica Richard <rjessil@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: slow delete...
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:17:43 +1000
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In-Reply-To: <695185.47881.qm@web56409.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References: <695185.47881.qm@web56409.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

> by the way, there is a foreign key on another table that references the
> primary key col0 on table test.
>

Try putting an index on the FK column in the other table. Analyse the
table. Test by starting a transaction then
issuing: explain analyze delete from test where cola = 'abc'. Should be faster.


Charles Duffy



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