Sorry. I realize this is a rather newbie question, but I've got a slow delete going on here, and I could use some help figuring out why. This is the classic "get rid of orphans" select.

delete from citizen where id not in (select citizenid from citizen_stage);

citizen.id and citizen_stage.citizenid are both indexed.

The explain select tells me that there is a sequential select of citizen_stage records. (??) There are 75009 citizen records and 14778 records, and it's taking more than half an hour. How can I speed this up?

Thanks,
Doug


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