On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Murat Tasan <mmuurr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > any insights here? Have you tried running the slow option multiple times? According to the explain output all of the time was accounted to the bitmap heap scan. For the second explain plan the same node was fast. It looks to me as the first explain on 8.4 was slow because the data was still on disk. Raising work mem doubled the speed of the sort from 800ms to 400ms. Regards, Ants Aasma -- Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH Gröhrmühlgasse 26 A-2700 Wiener Neustadt Web: http://www.postgresql-support.de -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance