Dear Bob, On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 05:14:29PM -0700, Bob Lunney wrote: > Zito, > > Using psql log in as the database owner and run "analyze verbose". Happiness will ensue. Unfortunately not. I ran "analyze" with different values default_statistics_target till 1000 as first tries always with the same problem described. I returned the value to the default 100 at the end: > Also, when requesting help with a query its important to state the > database version ("select version();") and what, if any, configuration > changes you have made in postgresql.conf. Listing ony the ones that > have changed is sufficient. You are right. I red about this, but after reading, analyzing, experimenting finally forgot to mention this basic information :(. The reason was I didn't feel to be interesting now also probably. The problem is planner I am afraid. Application and PostgreSQL is running on KVM virtual machine hosting Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. "select version();" returns: 'PostgreSQL 8.4.7 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.4.real (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5, 64-bit' Changed interesting parameters in postgresql.conf: max_connections = 48 shared_buffers = 1024MB work_mem = 32MB maintenance_work_mem = 256MB checkpoint_segments = 24 effective_cache_size = 2048MB log_min_duration_statement = 500 The virtual machine is the only one currently running on iron Dell PowerEdge R710, 2 x CPU Xeon L5520 @ 2.27GHz (quad-core), 32GiB RAM. PostgreSQL package installed is 8.4.7-0squeeze2. The VM has allocated 6GiB RAM and 2 CPU. One of my first hope was maybe a newer PostgreSQL series 9, can behaves better. I installed a second virtual machine with Debian GNU/Linux Sid and PostgreSQL package version 9.0.3-1. The result was the same. > Finally, the wiki has some good information on the care and feeding of a PostgreSQL database: > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Introduction_to_VACUUM,_ANALYZE,_EXPLAIN,_and_COUNT I red this already. Thanks -- Zito -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance