"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

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