Re: Poor performance when deleting from entity-attribute-value type master-table

Hi all.

Using PG-9.4.0 I'm seeing this trying to delete from an "entity"-master table:

*# explain analyze     delete from onp_crm_entity where entity_id IN (select tmp.delivery_id from temp_delete_delivery_id tmp);
                                                                    QUERY PLAN                                                                     
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 Delete on onp_crm_entity  (cost=0.43..5673.40 rows=1770 width=12) (actual time=7.370..7.370 rows=0 loops=1)
   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.43..5673.40 rows=1770 width=12) (actual time=0.050..1.374 rows=108 loops=1)
         ->  Seq Scan on temp_delete_delivery_id tmp  (cost=0.00..27.70 rows=1770 width=14) (actual time=0.014..0.080 rows=108 loops=1)
         ->  Index Scan using onp_crm_entity_pkey on onp_crm_entity  (cost=0.43..3.18 rows=1 width=14) (actual time=0.010..0.011 rows=1 loops=108)
               Index Cond: (entity_id = tmp.delivery_id)
 Planning time: 0.314 ms
 Trigger for constraint onp_crm_activity_entity_id_fkey: time=4.141 calls=108

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I have lots of tables referencing onp_crm_entity(entity_id) so I expect the poor performance of deleting from it is caused by all the triggers firing to check FKI-constraints.

Andreas, do you have indexes on FK columns in child tables?

If not – there is your problem.

Regards,

Igor Neyman