>> Given the fact that the performance issues are caused by bloated tables >> and / or slow I/O subsystem, moving to a similar system won't help I >> guess. > > I have ran VACUUM FULL ANALYZE VERBOSE > and set MAX_FSM_PAGES = 150000 > > So there is no any bloat except pg_shdepend indexes which should not > affect to query speed. OK, what was the number of unused pointer items in the VACUUM output? The query performance is still the same as when the tables were bloated? What are the outputs of iostat/vmstat/dstat/top when running the query? regards Tomas -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance