On 4/16/22 07:25, Perry Smith wrote:
Currently I have one table that mimics a file system. Each entry has a
parent_id and a base name where parent_id is an id in the table that must exist
in the table or be null with cascade on delete.
I’ve started a delete of a root entry with about 300,000 descendants. The
table currently has about 22M entries and I’m adding about 1600 entries per
minute still. Eventually there will not be massive amounts of entries being
added and the table will be mostly static.
I started the delete before from a terminal that got detached. So I killed
that process and started it up again from a terminal less likely to get
detached.˘
My question is basically how can I make life easier for Postgres? I believe
(hope) the deletes will be few and far between but they will happen from time
to time. In this case, Dropbox — its a long story that isn’t really pertinent.
The point is that @#$% happens.
“What can I do” includes starting completely over if necessary. I’ve only got
about a week invested in this and its just machine time at zero cost. I could
stop the other processes that are adding entries and let the delete finish if
that would help. etc.
Thank you for your time,
Perry
I would try 1) find any nodes with disproportionately more nodes, deal
with them separately. You my have a gut feel for where these nodes are?
2) Start at least one step down: run a transaction for each entry in
root node. Maybe go two levels down.
