what about firing a

DELETE FROM qc_session S
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM item_qc_doer i
WHERE i.item_id = s.item_id);

and

DELETE FROM item_qc_doer S
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM item_qc_doer i
WHERE i.item_id = s.item_id);


this might be faster.

another way to speed up deletes might be disabling foreign keys.

also a SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN=FALSE; can speed up queries (force use of indices for access)


do you have a EXPLAIN for us ? do you have a index on item_id on your tables ?

questions by questions ;-)



mfg


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Paul B. Cosinas
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2005 10:44
An: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Betreff: [PERFORM] Deleting Records


Hi!

I'm experiencing a very slow deletion of records. Which I thin is not right.
I have a Dual Xeon Server with 6gig Memory.
I am only deleting about 22,000 records but it took me more than 1 hour to
finish this.

What could possibly I do so that I can make this fast?

Here is the code inside my function:

FOR temp_rec IN SELECT * FROM item_qc_doer LOOP
DELETE FROM qc_session WHERE item_id = temp_rec.item_id;
DELETE FROM item_qc_doer WHERE item_id = temp_rec.item_id;
END LOOP;

Item_qc_oder table contains 22,000 records.


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