David,
Truncate table would be a good idea if u want to delete all the data in the table.
You need not perform vacuum in this case since there are no dead rows created.
~gourish
On 6/16/06, David Leangen <postgres@leangen.net> wrote:
Hello!
I am trying to delete an entire table. There are about 41,000 rows in
the table (based on count(*)).
I am using the SQL comment: delete from table;
The operation seems to take in the order of hours, rather than seconds
or minutes.
"Explain delete from table" gives me:
QUERY PLAN
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Seq Scan on table (cost=0.00..3967.74 rows=115374 width=6)
(1 row)
I am using an Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz CPU. My system has about 1.2GB of
RAM. This should be ok... my database isn't that big, I think.
Any ideas why this takes so long and how I could speed this up?
Or alternatively, is there a better way to delete all the contents from
a table?
Thank you!
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