Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 04:23:01 -0500
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Mariel Cherkassky <mariel.cherkassky@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas@a-kretschmer.de>,
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Subject: Re: trying to delete most of the table by range of date col
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 11:17:58AM +0300, Mariel Cherkassky wrote:
> Hi,
> I already checked and on all the tables that uses the id col of the main
> table as a foreign key have index on that column.
> 
> So, it seems that the second solution is the fastest one. It there a reason
> why the delete chunks (solution 4) wasnt faster?

I suggest running:

SET track_io_timing=on; -- requires superuser
explain(ANALYZE,BUFFERS) DELETE [...]

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions

Maybe you just need larger shared_buffers ?

Justin