There are 4 entries (wanted to make the playing field level for this test). There are 2 with true for istf and 2 with false. Rob Stephan Szabo wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rob Schall wrote: > > >> Question for anyone... >> >> I tried posting to the bugs, and they said this is a better question for here. >> I have to queries. One runs in about 2 seconds. The other takes upwards >> of 2 minutes. I have a temp table that is created with 2 columns. This >> table is joined with the larger database of call detail records. >> However, these 2 queries are handled very differently. >> > > How many rows are there in anitmp and how many rows in anitmp have > istf=true and how many have istf=false? If you don't currently analyze the > temp table after adding the rows, you might find that doing an analyze > helps, or at least makes the row estimates better. >