thank's a lot guys, I will try that out. regards Dieter Am 12.04.2011 um 11:07 schrieb Claudio Freire: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Dieter Rehbein <dieter.rehbein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just executed a VACUUM ANALYZE and now everything performs well. hm, strange. That probably means you need more statistics - try increasing the newsfeed's statistics target count. ALTER TABLE newsfeed_item ALTER COLUMN newsfeed SET STATISTICS <n>; Try different <n> numbers, you can crank it up to 4000 or perhaps more in 9.0, but you should start lower I guess. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance