Hi Tom, TL> "Tarabas (Manuel Rorarius)" <tarabas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I get the following explain and I am troubled by the very high >> "startup_cost" ... does anyone have any idea why that value is so >> high? >> {SEQSCAN >> :startup_cost 100000000.00 TL> You have enable_seqscan = off, no? You were right, I was testing this and had it removed, but somehow I must have hit the wrong button in pgadmin and it was not successfully removed from the database. After removing the enable_seqscan = off and making sure it was gone, it is a lot faster again. Now it takes about 469.841 ms for the select. TL> Please refrain from posting EXPLAIN VERBOSE unless it's specifically TL> requested ... mea culpa, i will not do that again :-) Best regards Manuel