Re: How do FKs work? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Janning Vygen
Subject Re: How do FKs work?
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Msg-id 200410111303.37986.vygen@gmx.de
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In response to Re: How do FKs work?  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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Am Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2004 15:01 schrieb Marc G. Fournier:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Janning Vygen wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2004 02:43 schrieb Marc G. Fournier:
> >> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> >>>> Have a table with two FKs on it ... 2 different fields in the table
> >>>> point to the same field in another table ...
> >>>>
> >>>> When I do an 'EXPLAIN ANALYZE DELETE FROM table WHERE field = #;', it
> >>>> never comes back ... or, at lesat, takes a *very* long time ...
> >>>
> >>> Do you have indexes on the referencing columns?  Are they exactly the
> >>> same datatype as the referenced column?  You can get really awful plans
> >>> for the FK-checking queries if not.
> >>
> >> Yup, that was my first thought ... running SELECT's joining the two
> >> tables on the FK fields shows indices being used, and fast times ...

Could you please show me your schema design regarding those two tables. I had 
this problem too and it just lacks from an index on the foreign key. 

janning


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