Re: [GENERAL] Deleting row in 7.4 takes for ever

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Bharat Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a table that has 5.4 million rows of data in it. 4.6 million of > these rows are just administrative messages and not necessary so I'd like to > delete them. If I try and delete them, it takes 69 minutes to delete ~650K > rows. I'm betting on a

[GENERAL] Deleting row in 7.4 takes for ever

2008-04-11 Thread Bharat Patel
Hello, I'm new to postgres and the work of DB's. I'm running postres 7.4 on RHLinux 3. I have a table that has 5.4 million rows of data in it. 4.6 million of these rows are just administrative messages and not necessary so I'd like to delete them. If I try and delete them, it takes 69 minut