Re: Deleting takes days, should I add some index?

On 2020-Nov-27, Alexander Farber wrote:

> Referenced by:
>     TABLE "words_chat" CONSTRAINT "words_chat_gid_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (gid)
> REFERENCES words_games(gid) ON DELETE CASCADE
>     TABLE "words_moves" CONSTRAINT "words_moves_gid_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (gid)
> REFERENCES words_games(gid) ON DELETE CASCADE
>     TABLE "words_scores" CONSTRAINT "words_scores_gid_fkey" FOREIGN KEY
> (gid) REFERENCES words_games(gid) ON DELETE CASCADE

Make sure you have indexes on the gid columns of these tables.  Delete
needs to scan them in order to find the rows that are cascaded to.

> So I ctrl-c (surprisingly not a single record was deleted; I was expecting
> at least some to be gone)

Ctrl-C aborts the transaction, so even though the rows are marked
deleted, they are so by an aborted transaction.  Therefore they're
alive.