venu madhav <venutaurus539@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I try to get the last twenty records from the database, it > takes around 10-15 mins to complete the operation. Making this a little easier to read (for me, at least) I get this: select e.cid, timestamp, s.sig_class, s.sig_priority, s.sig_name, e.sniff_ip, e.sniff_channel, s.sig_config, e.wifi_addr_1, e.wifi_addr_2, e.view_status, bssid FROM event e, signature s WHERE s.sig_id = e.signature AND e.timestamp >= '1270449180' AND e.timestamp < '1273473180' ORDER BY e.cid DESC, e.cid DESC limit 21 offset 10539780 ; Why the timestamp range, the order by, the limit, *and* the offset? On the face of it, that seems a bit confused. Not to mention that your ORDER BY has the same column twice. Perhaps that OFFSET is not needed? It is telling PostgreSQL that whatever results are generated based on the rest of the query, read through and ignore the first ten and a half million. Since you said you had about ten million rows, you wanted the last 20, and the ORDER by is DESCending, you're probably not going to get what you want. What, exactly, *is* it you want again? -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance