Re: [SQL] Simple delete takes hours

2005-03-07 Thread Lynwood Stewart
Another way to speed it up is to use bind variables.  It sped my deletes up 
by a factor of 280/1.

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Lynwood
"Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Hi there,
>
> I have a simple database:
>
> CREATE TABLE pwd_description (
>   id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
>   name varchar(50) NOT NULL
> );
>
> CREATE TABLE pwd_name (
>   id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
>   description integer  NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_description(id),
>   name varchar(50) NOT NULL,
>   added timestamp  DEFAULT now()
> );
>
> CREATE TABLE pwd_name_rev (
>   id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
>   description integer  NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_description(id),
>   rev_of integer   NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_name(id) ON DELETE 
> CASCADE,
>   name varchar(50) NOT NULL
> );
>
> The indexes shouldn't matter I think.
>
> pwd_name_rev is filled by a stored procedure and a trigger (ON INSERT) 
> when something is inserted to pwd_name. Both tables contain about 
> 4.500.000 emtries each.
>
> I stopped 'delete from pwd_name where description=1' after about 8 hours 
> (!). The query should delete about 500.000 records.
> Then I tried 'delete from pwd_name_rev where description=1' - this took 23 
> seconds (!).
> Then I retried the delete on pwd_name but it's running for 6 hours now.
>
> I use PostgreSQL 7.4.7 on Linux 2.6.10. The machine is a Celeron 2 GHz 
> with 512 MB RAM.
>
> PostgreSQL should do a full table scan I think, get all records with 
> description=1 and remove them - I don't understand what's happening for
> >8 hours.
>
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
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Re: [SQL] Simple delete takes hours

2005-03-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 05.03.2005 00:24 PFC wrote:

> Every time a row is removed from pwd_name, the ON DELETE CASCADE
> trigger  will look in pwd_name_rev if there is a row to delete... Does
> it have an  index on pwd_name_rev( rev_of ) ? If not you'll get a full
> table scan for  every row deleted in pwd_name...

Yes that's it, thanks a lot!


pwdcheck=# explain analyze delete from pwd_name where description=1;
   QUERY PLAN
-
 Seq Scan on pwd_name  (cost=0.00..116571.15 rows=1774250 width=6)
(actual time=9526.671..21957.920 rows=543348 loops=1)
   Filter: (description = 1)
 Total runtime: 3.749 ms
(3 rows)

Is it possible to get fired triggers/called stored procedures and things
like that in an 'explain' ?

To find out why the delete is that slow I did:
pwdcheck=# explain analyze delete from pwd_name where id in
pwdcheck-# (select id from pwd_name where description=1 limit 10);

There was no hint that every deleted row leads to a full table scan.


Thomas


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Re: [SQL] Simple delete takes hours

2005-03-04 Thread PFC
	Every time a row is removed from pwd_name, the ON DELETE CASCADE trigger  
will look in pwd_name_rev if there is a row to delete... Does it have an  
index on pwd_name_rev( rev_of ) ? If not you'll get a full table scan for  
every row deleted in pwd_name...


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:44:58 +0100, Thomas Mueller  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi there,
I have a simple database:
CREATE TABLE pwd_description (
   id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
   name varchar(50) NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE pwd_name (
   id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
   description integer  NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_description(id),
   name varchar(50) NOT NULL,
   added timestamp  DEFAULT now()
);
CREATE TABLE pwd_name_rev (
   id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
   description integer  NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_description(id),
   rev_of integer   NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_name(id) ON DELETE  
CASCADE,
   name varchar(50) NOT NULL
);

The indexes shouldn't matter I think.
pwd_name_rev is filled by a stored procedure and a trigger (ON INSERT)  
when something is inserted to pwd_name. Both tables contain about  
4.500.000 emtries each.

I stopped 'delete from pwd_name where description=1' after about 8 hours  
(!). The query should delete about 500.000 records.
Then I tried 'delete from pwd_name_rev where description=1' - this took  
23 seconds (!).
Then I retried the delete on pwd_name but it's running for 6 hours now.

I use PostgreSQL 7.4.7 on Linux 2.6.10. The machine is a Celeron 2 GHz  
with 512 MB RAM.

PostgreSQL should do a full table scan I think, get all records with  
description=1 and remove them - I don't understand what's happening for  
 >8 hours.

Any help is appreciated.
Thomas
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Re: [SQL] Simple delete takes hours

2005-03-04 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have a simple database:
>
> CREATE TABLE pwd_description (
>id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
>name varchar(50) NOT NULL
> );
>
> CREATE TABLE pwd_name (
>id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
>description integer  NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_description(id),
>name varchar(50) NOT NULL,
>added timestamp  DEFAULT now()
> );
>
> CREATE TABLE pwd_name_rev (
>id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
>description integer  NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_description(id),
>rev_of integer   NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_name(id) ON DELETE
> CASCADE,
>name varchar(50) NOT NULL
> );
>
> The indexes shouldn't matter I think.
>
> pwd_name_rev is filled by a stored procedure and a trigger (ON INSERT)
> when something is inserted to pwd_name. Both tables contain about
> 4.500.000 emtries each.
>
> I stopped 'delete from pwd_name where description=1' after about 8 hours
> (!). The query should delete about 500.000 records.
> Then I tried 'delete from pwd_name_rev where description=1' - this took
> 23 seconds (!).
> Then I retried the delete on pwd_name but it's running for 6 hours now.
>
> I use PostgreSQL 7.4.7 on Linux 2.6.10. The machine is a Celeron 2 GHz
> with 512 MB RAM.
>
> PostgreSQL should do a full table scan I think, get all records with
> description=1 and remove them - I don't understand what's happening for
>  >8 hours.

It's going to remove rows in pwd_name_rev based on the rev_of not
description (and you really should make sure to have an index on rev_of).
Without being able to see triggers and rules on the tables, I can't tell
if it's even legal to remove the rows with description=1 from
pwd_name_rev, but it isn't with just the constraints defined above.


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[SQL] Simple delete takes hours

2005-03-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi there,
I have a simple database:
CREATE TABLE pwd_description (
  id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
  name varchar(50) NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE pwd_name (
  id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
  description integer  NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_description(id),
  name varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  added timestamp  DEFAULT now()
);
CREATE TABLE pwd_name_rev (
  id SERIALNOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY,
  description integer  NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_description(id),
  rev_of integer   NOT NULL REFERENCES pwd_name(id) ON DELETE 
CASCADE,
  name varchar(50) NOT NULL
);

The indexes shouldn't matter I think.
pwd_name_rev is filled by a stored procedure and a trigger (ON INSERT) 
when something is inserted to pwd_name. Both tables contain about 
4.500.000 emtries each.

I stopped 'delete from pwd_name where description=1' after about 8 hours 
(!). The query should delete about 500.000 records.
Then I tried 'delete from pwd_name_rev where description=1' - this took 
23 seconds (!).
Then I retried the delete on pwd_name but it's running for 6 hours now.

I use PostgreSQL 7.4.7 on Linux 2.6.10. The machine is a Celeron 2 GHz 
with 512 MB RAM.

PostgreSQL should do a full table scan I think, get all records with 
description=1 and remove them - I don't understand what's happening for 
>8 hours.

Any help is appreciated.
Thomas
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