From: "Cao Duy" <cao.duy@xxxxxxxxx> > > here is my simple select-statement: > SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE CUSTOMER_ID=5 > > the result appears after about 27 sec. > > what's wrong? > ... > CREATE TABLE public.customer > ( > customer_id bigserial NOT NULL, you do not specify version or show us an explain analyze, or tell us what indexes you have, but if you want to use an index on the bigint column customer_id, and you are using postgres version 7.4 or less, you need to cast your constant (5) to bigint. try SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE CUSTOMER_ID=5::bigint or SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE CUSTOMER_ID='5' gnari