thank you all for your advice. i will try the table partitioning approach to reduce the size of the tables and to be able to handle them more efficiently -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/cannot-use-multicolumn-index-tp4802634p4806239.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