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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Karim Nassar <karim.nassar@acm.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Delete query takes exorbitant amount of time
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:21:03 +0100
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On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 07:05 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Karim Nassar wrote:
> > Some improvement. Even better once it's cached. Row estimate didn't
> > change. Is this the best I can expect? Is there any other optimizations
> > I am missing?
> 
> I'm not sure, really. Running a seq scan for each removed row in the
> referenced table doesn't seem like a particularly good plan in general
> though, especially if the average number of rows being referenced isn't
> on the order of 500k per value. I don't know what to look at next though.
> 

Karim, please...

run the EXPLAIN after doing
	SET enable_seqscan = off

Thanks,

Best Regards, Simon Riggs




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