Re: [PERFORM] slow delete due to reference

2017-06-24 Thread Tom Lane
Rikard Pavelic writes: > Is it possible to speed up deletes which have null references so they don't > check if a reference is valid? You're thinking about the problem backwards. Since the table is self-referential, each row is both a PK (referenced) row and an FK (referencing) row. In its rol

[PERFORM] slow delete due to reference

2017-06-24 Thread Rikard Pavelic
Is it possible to speed up deletes which have null references so they don't check if a reference is valid? I had this scenario: --large table not referenced from other places CREATE TABLE large_table ( id bigserial primary key, ref_1 bigint not null, ref_2 bigint not null, at_1 timestamptz n