On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:23, you wrote: > what hardware? Via 800 mhz (about equiv to a 300 mhz pentium 2) 128 mb of slow ram 4200 rpm ide hard drive. Told you it was slow. :-) This is not the production system. I don't expect this to be "fast" but everything else happens in under 2 seconds, so I know I could do this faster. Especially becaue the information I'm looking for probably just needs some denormalization, or other such trick to pop right out. I'm using this system so I can locate my performance bottlenecks easier, and actually, it's plenty fast enough except for this one single query. I don't necessarily want to optimize the query, more than just get the info faster, so that's why I'm posting here. > show the tables and the indexes for those tables No prob: CREATE TABLE to_ship ( id int8 NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval(('to_ship_seq'::text)::regclass), ordered_product_id int8 NOT NULL, bounced int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, operator_id varchar(20) NOT NULL, "timestamp" timestamptz NOT NULL DEFAULT ('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone, CONSTRAINT to_ship_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id), CONSTRAINT to_ship_ordered_product_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (ordered_product_id) REFERENCES ordered_products (id) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT ) WITHOUT OIDS; CREATE TABLE ordered_products ( id int8 NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval(('ordered_products_seq'::text)::regclass), order_id int8 NOT NULL, product_id int8 NOT NULL, recipient_address_id int8 NOT NULL, hide bool NOT NULL DEFAULT false, renewal bool NOT NULL DEFAULT false, "timestamp" timestamptz NOT NULL DEFAULT ('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone, operator_id varchar(20) NOT NULL, suspended_sub bool NOT NULL DEFAULT false, quantity int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT 1, price_paid numeric NOT NULL, tax_paid numeric NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, shipping_paid numeric NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, remaining_issue_obligation int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, parent_product_id int8, delivery_method_id int8 NOT NULL, paid bool NOT NULL DEFAULT false, CONSTRAINT ordered_products_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id), CONSTRAINT ordered_products_order_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (order_id) REFERENCES orders (id) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT, CONSTRAINT ordered_products_parent_product_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (parent_product_id) REFERENCES ordered_products (id) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT, CONSTRAINT ordered_products_recipient_address_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY (recipient_address_id) REFERENCES addresses (id) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT ) WITHOUT OIDS; === The two indexes that should matter === CREATE INDEX ordered_product_id_index ON to_ship USING btree (ordered_product_id); CREATE INDEX paid_index ON ordered_products USING btree (paid); ordered_products.id is a primary key, so it should have an implicit index.