"Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A pgAdmin user has noticed that Foreign Keys take significantly longer > to create when migrating a database in pgAdmin in v1.4.12 than in > v1.4.2.
The only reason ADD FOREIGN KEY would take a long time is if (a) it has to wait awhile to get exclusive lock on either the referencing or referenced table; and/or (b) it takes a long time to verify that the existing entries in the referencing table all have matches in the referenced table. (that's the behind-the-scenes query you see) I'm betting that the table was busy, or there was a lot more data present in the one case, or you hadn't ever vacuumed/analyzed one or both tables and so a bad plan was chosen for the verification query. The schema reference is definitely not the issue. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org