Thanks for reply both UNION and JOINS helped. Mainly the UNION helped a lot. Now the query takes 1sec max. Thanks a lot. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Query-improvement-tp4362578p4378157.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