Re: LONG delete with LOTS of FK's - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Larry Rosenman
Subject Re: LONG delete with LOTS of FK's
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Msg-id b656ed94eb26b999c485e1a86f1e4328@webmail.lerctr.org
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In response to Re: LONG delete with LOTS of FK's  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On 2013-05-02 10:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
>> Question: Do all these need to have a bare index just on the
>> account_id
>> column, or is a multicolumn index with account_id first
>> sufficient for the check to be reasonably quick?
>
> I would think that such an index would be sufficient, but you could
> check for yourself by doing something like
>
>     explain select 1 from <table> where account_id = <something>
>
> and verifying that you get an indexscan not a seqscan, for each
> dependent table.
>
>             regards, tom lane
Thanks, Tom.  I found 12 tables with Sequential scans.

We'll fix that.

Appreciate the help.


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