delete is extremely slow - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Emi Lu
Subject delete is extremely slow
Date
Msg-id 44770727.5090708@encs.concordia.ca
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List pgsql-general
Hello,

Tried to run:

delete from tableA where id <600000;

It is extremely slow.

id is integer and also the primary key. tableA has around 90000 records.

(I do not want to run truncate since I have some foreign key constraint
setup based on tableA. Besides not all data I want to delete; only part
of them).

Thanks






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