Thanks Kevin. I thought about using tsearch2 but I need to be able to select exact values on other numerical queries and cannot use "contains" queries. It's got to be fast so I cannot have lots of records returned and have to do secondary processing on the xml for the records which contain the exact value I'm looking for. This is one of the reasons I moved from using Lucene for searching. I hope this makes sense. Kevin Grittner wrote: > wrote: > > > I would try to minimize how many XML values it had to read, parse, and > search. The best approach that comes to mind would be to use tsearch2 > techniques (with a GIN or GiST index on the tsvector) to identify > which rows contain 'fdc3da1f-060f-4c34-9c30-d9334d9272ae', and use AND > to combine that with your xpath search. > > -Kevin > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Slow-select-times-on-select-with-xpath-tp25259351p25530439.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - performance mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance