On Jun 11, 2:23 pm, "Andrus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried
>
> CREATE TEMP TABLE mydel AS
> SELECT r.dokumnr
> FROM rid r
> LEFT JOIN dok d USING (dokumnr)
> WHERE d.dokumnr IS NULL;
> DELETE FROM rid USING mydel WHERE rid.dokumnr =mydel.dokumnr;
> drop table mydel;
>
> and this runs 1 seconds intead for 2.2 hours.
>
> Thank you very much.
> This works!
>
> It's sad that PostgreSQL cannot optimize this delete statement
> automatically.
1 second does sound a lot better than 2 hours, doesn't it? :)
As to why Postgres seems to fail, I cannot say any more, as your
description is unclear. I am pretty sure there is some
misunderstanding, though.
Regards
Erwin
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