Re: delete is extremely slow

>>Tried to run:
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>>delete from tableA where id <600000;
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>>It is extremely slow.
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>>id is integer and also the primary key. tableA has around 90000 records.
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>>(I do not want to run truncate since I have some foreign key constraint
>>setup based on tableA. Besides not all data I want to delete; only part
>>of them).
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>Since you have some FK constrains on A, so delete each line of A will
>confirm that it is not depended, which involves a lookup on the dependent
>table. Do you have indexes built on these dependents?
>

No, I do not have indexes setup for those dependents.

If I setup index for those columns, it will speed up the deletion, right?

Thank you.