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From Dorward Villaruz
Subject deletion of records
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can anybody help me with this one
 
i want to delete rows from one table based values from another table.
 
here is the scenario
 
i have a table named custinfo which contain 2000000 records and a table custinfotemp which contain 30000 records. i want to delete all records in custinfo where the cust_id is found on custinfotemp where it's update status is 'D'
 
here is my sql statement
 
psql -h $HOSTNAME -d $DBNAME -c "DELETE FROM custinfo WHERE custinfo.UserID IN (SELECT custinfotemp.userid FROM custinfotemp where updateStatus='D')";
 
is it possible that this query statement takes 24 hours and still running to execute?
 
is there a way to achieve the same result faster?
 
thanks.

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