> my answer may be out of topic since you might be looking for a > postgres-only solution.. But just in case.... I'd like to stay with SQL. > What are you trying to achieve exactly ? Is there any way you could > re-work your algorithms to avoid selects and use a sequential scan > (consider your postgres data as one big file) to retrieve each of the > rows, analyze / compute them (possibly in a distributed manner), and > join the results at the end ? I'm trying to improve performance - get answer from mentioned query faster. And since cardinality is high (100000+ different values) I doubt that it would be possible to reach select speed with reasonable number of nodes of sequential scan nodes. Mindaugas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings