On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:27:08AM -0800, SPMLINGAM wrote: > I have a table with 50 lakhs records, the table has more then 10 > fields, i have primary key, i have select query with count(*) without any > condition, it takes 17 seconds. Without knowing what a "lakhs" record is, it's pretty obvious that you haven't vacuumed in a very long time. Run VACUUM FULL on your tables, then instate regular (non-FULL) VACUUMs or enable autovacuum. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://mail.postgresql.org/mj/mj_wwwusr?domain=postgresql.org&extra=pgsql-performance