diff --git a/synapse/storage/events.py b/synapse/storage/events.py
index 1c8e01a47e..622f2ababf 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/events.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/events.py
@@ -1890,20 +1890,6 @@ class EventsStore(EventFederationStore, EventsWorkerStore, BackgroundUpdateStore
")"
)
- # create an index on should_delete because later we'll be looking for
- # the should_delete / shouldn't_delete subsets
- txn.execute(
- "CREATE INDEX events_to_purge_should_delete"
- " ON events_to_purge(should_delete)",
- )
-
- # We do joins against events_to_purge for e.g. calculating state
- # groups to purge, etc., so lets make an index.
- txn.execute(
- "CREATE INDEX events_to_purge_id"
- " ON events_to_purge(event_id)",
- )
-
# First ensure that we're not about to delete all the forward extremeties
txn.execute(
"SELECT e.event_id, e.depth FROM events as e "
@@ -1950,6 +1936,24 @@ class EventsStore(EventFederationStore, EventsWorkerStore, BackgroundUpdateStore
),
should_delete_params,
)
+
+ # We create the indices *after* insertion as that's a lot faster.
+
+ # create an index on should_delete because later we'll be looking for
+ # the should_delete / shouldn't_delete subsets
+ txn.execute(
+ "CREATE INDEX events_to_purge_should_delete"
+ " ON events_to_purge(should_delete)",
+ )
+
+ # We do joins against events_to_purge for e.g. calculating state
+ # groups to purge, etc., so lets make an index.
+ txn.execute(
+ "CREATE INDEX events_to_purge_id"
+ " ON events_to_purge(event_id)",
+ )
+
+
txn.execute(
"SELECT event_id, should_delete FROM events_to_purge"
)
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