> You guys are right. I tried "Miller" and gave me the same result. Is there > any way to tune this so that for the common last names, the query run time > doesn't jump from <1s to >300s? > Thanks for the help! Can you send the output of EXPLAIN ANALYZE for both cases? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance