[PERFORM] Poor performance for delete query

2014-04-24 Thread Jonatan Evald Buus
Greetings, We're currently having very poor performance for the following delete query. DELETE FROM TopTable WHERE id IN (xx, yy, zz); We've observed that it takes around 7 seconds under normal load to for each row that's being from TopTable and several minutes pr deleted row under heavy load. "i

Re: [PERFORM] Poor performance for delete query

2014-04-24 Thread Jonatan Evald Buus
Many thanks for the swift reply Tom, please see additional input below /Jona On 24 April 2014 22:29, Tom Lane wrote: > Jonatan Evald Buus writes: > > We're currently having very poor performance for the following delete > query. > > DELETE FROM TopTable WHERE id IN (x

Re: [PERFORM] Poor performance for delete query

2014-04-24 Thread Jonatan Evald Buus
On 24 April 2014 23:25, Tom Lane wrote: > Jonatan Evald Buus writes: > > On 24 April 2014 22:29, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I'd really have to bet that you forgot to index one of the referencing > >> tables. > > > *That was our first thought, so we went