On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 11:02 -0400, Carlo Stonebanks wrote: > (SORRY FOR THE REPOST, I DON'T SEE MY ORIGINAL QUESTION OR ANY ANSWERS HERE) > > I am noticing that my queries are spending a lot of time in nested loops. > The table/index row estimates are not bad, but the nested loops can be off > by a factor of 50. In any case, they are always too high. > > Are the over-estimations below significant, and if so, is this an indication > of a general configuration problem? Sounds much like the issue I was seeing as well. > > Unique (cost=67605.91..67653.18 rows=4727 width=16) (actual > time=8634.618..8637.918 rows=907 loops=1) You can to rewrite the queries to individual queries to see it if helps. In my case, I was doing select a.a,b.b,c.c from (select a from x where) a <--- Put as a SRF left join ( select b from y where ) b <--- Put as a SRF on a.a = b.a ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend