Re: poor performance involving a small table

Colton A Smith wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
>  I have a table called sensors:
>
>                                     Table "public.sensor"
>      Column      |           Type           |                    Modifiers
> -----------------+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
>
>  sensor_id       | integer                  | not null default
> nextval('sensor_id_seq'::text)
>  sensor_model_id | integer                  | not null
>  serial_number   | character varying(50)    | not null
>  purchase_date   | timestamp with time zone | not null
>  variable_id     | integer                  | not null
>  datalink_id     | integer                  | not null
>  commentary      | text                     |
> Indexes:
>     "sensor_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (sensor_id)
> Foreign-key constraints:
>     "datalink_id_exists" FOREIGN KEY (datalink_id) REFERENCES
> datalink(datalink_id) ON DELETE RESTRICT
>     "sensor_model_id_exists" FOREIGN KEY (sensor_model_id) REFERENCES
> sensor_model(sensor_model_id) ON DELETE RESTRICT
>     "variable_id_exists" FOREIGN KEY (variable_id) REFERENCES
> variable(variable_id) ON DELETE RESTRICT
>
>
> Currently, it has only 19 rows.  But when I try to delete a row, it takes
> forever.  I tried restarting the server.  I tried a full vacuum to no
> avail.  I tried the following:
>
> explain analyze delete from sensor where sensor_id = 12;
>                                            QUERY PLAN
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  Seq Scan on sensor  (cost=0.00..1.25 rows=1 width=6) (actual
> time=0.055..0.068 rows=1 loops=1)
>    Filter: (sensor_id = 12)
>  Total runtime: 801641.333 ms
> (3 rows)
>
> Can anybody help me out?  Thanks so much!
>

I'd say the obvious issue would be your foreign keys slowing things down. Have
you analyzed the referenced tables, and indexed the columns on the referenced
tables?

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