On Monday 12 January 2009, Bill Preston <billpreston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As to the second example with the delete. There are no foreign keys. > For the index. If the table has fields a,b,c and d. > We have a btree index (a,b,c,d) > and we are saying DELETE FROM table_messed_up WHERE a=x. > Is there anything special about this table? Does it have like a hundred indexes on it or something? Because deleting 8k rows from a normal table should never take more than a couple of seconds. -- Alan -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance