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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: Karim Nassar <karim.nassar@NAU.EDU>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Delete query takes exorbitant amount of time
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:58:20 -0500
Message-ID: <20845.1111733900@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4243879B.10200@familyhealth.com.au>
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> In that case there's a datatype mismatch between the referencing and
>> referenced columns, which prevents the index from being used for the
>> FK check.

> Is creating such a foreign key a WARNING yet?

I believe so as of 8.0.  It's a bit tricky since 8.0 does allow some
cross-type cases to be indexed, but IIRC we have a test that understands
about that...

			regards, tom lane



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