Aaron Turner <synfinatic@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I know the costs are just relative, but I assumed > cost=19229.08..29478.99 isn't 5 minutes of effort even on crappy > hardware. Very likely the bulk of the time is spent in the DELETE work proper, not in the query to find the rows to be deleted. In particular I wonder if you have an unindexed foreign key referencing this table ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance