On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:41:23AM -0700, Stephen Byers wrote: > Does the table perchance fit completely into memory, without > effective_cache_size indicating that? > > Don't know the exact way to answer your question, but my initial instinct is "no way." What about the working set? Have you tried running the queries multiple times in a row to see if the results change? It might be that your initial bitmap scan puts all the relevant bits into cache, which will skew the results. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/