Hi,
You have any foreign keys pointing this table ? That's the problem I
got when I wanted to delete all rows from a table with 5 FK. You may
search my name in the list archive and found the thread on this matter.
Ciao
/David
Edmund Dengler wrote:
Greetings!
We have a table with more than 250 million rows. I am trying to delete the
first 100,000 rows (based on a bigint primary key), and I had to cancel
after 4 hours of the system not actually finishing the delete. I wrote a
script to delete individual rows 10,000 at a time using transactions, and
am finding each individual delete takes on the order of 0.1 seconds to 2-3
seconds. There are 4 indexes on the table, one of which is very "hashlike"
(ie, distribution is throught the index for sequential rows).
Is this considered "normal" for delete speed? Currently using 8.0.1.
Drives are capable of 40MB/sec sustained transfers, but only acheiving
about 2-10kB/sec, and mostly CPU bound.
Regards!
Ed
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