Well, there goes my dream of getting a recommendation that will deliver a blinding insight into how to speed up all of my queries a thousand-fold. Thanks Merlin! -----Original Message----- From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: September 17, 2007 8:03 PM To: Carlo Stonebanks Cc: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Query works when kludged, but would prefer "best practice" solution On 9/17/07, Carlo Stonebanks <stonec.register@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please see the section marked as "PROBLEM" in "ORIGINAL QUERY" plan below. > You can see it's pretty slow. Oddly enough, an index for facility_address_id > is available but not being used, but I suspect it's questionable whether it > would be an improvement. This looks like it might be the problem tom caught and rigged a solution to: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/dfetter/index.php?/archives/134-PostgreSQ L-Weekly-News-September-03-2007.html (look fro band-aid). If that's the case, the solution is to wait for 8.2.5 (coming soon). merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings