Re: Fast way to delete big table? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Charles Clavadetscher
Subject Re: Fast way to delete big table?
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In response to Re: Fast way to delete big table?  (hmzha2 <Haiming.Zhang@redflex.com.au>)
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Hello

> The reason I dont have condition when selecting is it's faster than having.
> Because my aim is to go through every row, find values of few columns and append them to a summary table. Then
> delete the row from the table. So find the rows on the fly is fine for me.
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> I have tried to reduce the number of rows to be processed, even I process 1 row in production machine, it takes 24
> hours to finish.

This is quite weird... It there any other process locking the record or the table?
Bye
Charles

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