> What exactly is your goal? Do you need this query to respond in under a > specific limit? What limit? Do you need to be able to execute many instances > of this query in less than 5s * the number of executions? Or do you have more > complex queries that you're really worried about? I'd like this query to respond under a specific time limit. 5s now is OK but 50s later for 10000 rows is too slow. > Both Greenplum and EnterpriseDB have products in this space which let you > break the query up over several servers but at least in EnterpriseDB's case > it's targeted towards running complex queries which take longer than this to > run. I doubt you would see much benefit for a 5s query after the overhead of > sending parts of the query out to different machines and then reassembling the > results. If your real concern is with more complex queries they may make sense > though. It's also possible that paying someone to come look at your database > will find other ways to speed it up. I see. This query also should benefit alot even when run in parallel on one server. Since anyway most time it spends in waiting for storage to respond. Also off list I was pointed out about covering indexes in MySQL. But they are not supported in PostgreSQL, aren't they? Mindaugas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq