Hi, > A rather long import process is stuck since ~12hrs on a query that > normally returns in a few seconds or minutes. Kust like to OP there's > almost no activity on the box, only a single postgres process at 100% CPU. > > Two separate queries, (although similar) have triggered the issue, and > they are run one after another. Also, the import is also not always > failing, I think it happened twice in about 10 runs. We're expected to > go live in about two weeks so these were only test runs. > > The explain looks like this: > http://explain.depesz.com/s/TqD The query eventually completed in more than 18h. For comparison a normal run doesn't take more than 1m for that specific step. Do you think that bad stats and suboptimal plan alone could explain such a behaviour? Cheers -- Matteo Beccati Development & Consulting - http://www.beccati.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance