On thing I failed to note here, that is probably critical ... its a 7.3 database ...
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Have a table with two FKs on it ... 2 different fields in the table point to the same field in another table ...
When I do an 'EXPLAIN ANALYZE DELETE FROM table WHERE field = #;', it never comes back ... or, at lesat, takes a *very* long time ...
Do you have indexes on the referencing columns? Are they exactly the same datatype as the referenced column? You can get really awful plans for the FK-checking queries if not.
regards, tom lane
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