gdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Graham Davis) writes: > 40 seconds is much too slow for this query to run and I'm assuming > that the use of an index will make it much faster (as seen when I > removed the GROUP BY clause). Any tips? Assumptions are dangerous things. An aggregate like this has *got to* scan the entire table, and given that that is the case, an index scan is NOT optimal; a seq scan is. An index scan is just going to be slower. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="linuxdatabases.info" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://cbbrowne.com/info/linux.html "The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguishable from the food it produces." -- Alan J. Perlis
