<stuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am working with some pretty convoluted queries that work very slowly the > first time they're called but perform fine on the second call. I am fairly > certain that these differences are due to the caching. Can someone point me > in a direction that would allow me to pre-cache the critical indexes? Buy more RAM. Also check your shared_buffers setting (but realize that more is not necessarily better). regards, tom lane