"Marc Morin" <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Well this analyze just took 12 minutes... Stats target of 100. > # time psql xxx xxx -c "analyze elem_trafficstats_1" Try analyzing just the one column, and try reducing its stats target to 10. It does make a difference: sorttest=# set default_statistics_target TO 100; SET Time: 0.382 ms sorttest=# analyze verbose d10; INFO: analyzing "public.d10" INFO: "d10": scanned 30000 of 833334 pages, containing 3600000 live rows and 0 dead rows; 30000 rows in sample, 100000080 estimated total rows ANALYZE Time: 137186.347 ms sorttest=# set default_statistics_target TO 10; SET Time: 0.418 ms sorttest=# analyze verbose d10(col1); INFO: analyzing "public.d10" INFO: "d10": scanned 3000 of 833334 pages, containing 360000 live rows and 0 dead rows; 3000 rows in sample, 100000080 estimated total rows ANALYZE Time: 17206.018 ms sorttest=# regards, tom lane