Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <rr.rosas@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, I think something changed recently in my development environment as > I don't recall deletes being so slow before. > I've created a new dump and restored to a new database, ran VACUUM FULL > ANALYSE and a simple delete takes forever as you can see here: The usual suspect for this is not having an index on some FK referencing column, thus forcing the FK check trigger to seq-scan the entire referencing table for each referenced row that is to be deleted. regards, tom lane