On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Sebastien Lemieux wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Sebastien Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > All the time is taken at the commit of both transaction. > > > > Sounds like the culprit is foreign-key checks. > > > > One obvious question is whether you have your foreign keys set up > > efficiently in the first place. As a rule, the referenced and > > referencing columns should have identical datatypes and both should > > be indexed. (PG will often let you create foreign key constraints > > that don't meet these rules ... but performance will suffer.) > > I've checked and all the foreign keys are setup between 'serial' (the > primary key of the referenced table) and 'integer not null' (the foreign > key field). Would that be same type? A couple of my foreign keys are not > indexed, I'll fix that. The latter seems to do the job, since I can now > synchronize in about 75 seconds (compared to 30 minutes), which seems good > enough.
Another thing might be the management of the trigger queue. I don't think 7.3.2 had the optimization for limiting the scans of the queue when you have lots of deferred triggers. It looks like 7.3.4 may though. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
