On 12 August 2010 12:14, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <m...@webthatworks.it> wrote: > I've > delete from catalog_items where ItemID in (select id from > import.Articoli_delete); > > id and ItemID have an index. > > catalog_items is ~1M rows > Articoli_delete is less than 2K rows. > > This query has been running for roughly 50min. > Right now it is the only query running. > > PostgreSQL 8.3.4 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) > 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) > > -- You can try to do deletes in batches of 10,000:
DELETE FROM catalog_items WHERE ItemID IN (SELECT id FROM import.Articoli_delete LIMIT 10000); But an EXPLAIN would tell us a lot more. -- Thom Brown Registered Linux user: #516935 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general