> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-performance- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Herlihy > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:56 PM > To: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Query planner is using wrong index. [Snip] > I am really surprised that I have to go through such contortions just to > use > the primary key! This area of Postgres needs improvement. > Of course you mentioned that you are using 7.4.7. You might want to try upgrading to 8.1.3. There have been a lot of improvements to the performance since 7.4. I don't know if your specific problem was fixed, but it's worth a try. Also you might want to at least upgrade to 7.4.12 for the bug fixes.