Hi Nark, thanks for your answer. It's expected to return 1,720 rows (of 80,471 that match with condition WHERE T.cuiT='12345678901') We have indexes by : uesapt000: cuiT, cuiL, PERI; uesapt001: cuiL, PERI; uesapt002: cuiT, PERI; We usually make a vacuum analyze and reindex of every table, and we are running 8.0 and 8.1 for windows and 7.4 for Linux. Here is the EXPLAIN: QUERY PLAN 1 Unique (cost=37478647.41..37478650.53 rows=312 width=62) 2 -> Sort (cost=37478647.41..37478648.19 rows=312 width=62) 3 Sort Key: t.cuiT, t.cuiL, u.maxperi 4 -> Merge Join (cost=128944.78..37478634.48 rows=312 width=62) 5 Merge Cond: ("outer".cuiL = "inner".cuiL) 6 Join Filter: (("inner".PERI)::text = "outer".maxperi) 7 -> Subquery Scan u (cost=0.00..37348434.56 rows=3951 width=47) 8 -> GroupAggregate (cost=0.00..37348395.05 rows=3951 width=25) 9 -> Index Scan using uesapt001 on APORTES (cost=0.00..37301678.64 rows=9339331 width=25) 10 -> Sort (cost=128944.78..129100.44 rows=62263 width=40) 11 Sort Key: t.cuiL 12 -> Index Scan using uesapt002 on APORTES t (cost=0.00..122643.90 rows=62263 width=40) 13 Index Cond: (cuiT = '30701965554'::bpchar) Thanks Sebastián Baioni --- Mark Lewis <mark.lewis@xxxxxxxx> escribió: > Can you provide an EXPLAIN ANALYZE of the query in PG? Have you > analyzed the PG database? How many rows is this query expected to > return? Which version of PG are you running? What indexes have you > defined? > > -- Mark > > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:38 +0000, Sebastián Baioni wrote: > > Hello, I'm migrating from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL 8.1 and I have a > > serious problem: > > Table: APORTES - Rows: 9,000,000 (9 million) > > *cuiT (char 11) > > *cuiL (char 11) > > *PERI (char 6) > > FAMI (numeric 6) > > > > I need all the cuiLs whose max(PERI) are from a cuiT, and the Max > > (FAMI) of those cuiLs, so the sentence is: > > > > SELECT DISTINCT T.cuiT, T.cuiL. U.MAXPERI, U.MAXFAMI > > FROM APORTES T > > INNER JOIN > > (SELECT cuiL, MAX(PERI) AS MAXPERI, > > MAX(FAMI) AS MAXFAMI > > FROM APORTES > > GROUP BY cuiL) AS U > > ON T.cuiL = U.cuiL AND T.PERI=U.MAXPERI > > WHERE T.cuiT='12345678901' > > > > In MS SQL Server it lasts 1minute, in PostgreSQL for Windows it lasts > > 40minutes and in PostgreSQL for Linux (FreeBSD) it lasts 20minuts. > > > > Do you know if there is any way to tune the server or optimize this > > sentence? > > > > Thanks > > Sebastián Baioni __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas