Hi Tom, Greg, Thanks for your helpful suggestions - switching the BIGINT to FLOAT and fixing the postgresql.conf to better match my server configuration gave me about 30% speedup on the queries. Because of the fact that my data insert order was almost never the data retrieval order, I also got a significant (about 3x - 10x) speedup by CLUSTERing the tables on an index that represented the most frequent query orders (main_id, timestamp, sub_id, device_id) - the queries that were taking a few seconds earlier now complete in a few hundred milliseconds (5s vs. 600ms in some instances). Thanks Again, Hrishikesh -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance