PV wrote: > Any suggestion? You provided too little information to suggest much beyond using JOIN instead of a subquery. Something like: SELECT pr.id, pr.catid, cat.a, cat.b FROM pr join cat ON (cat.id = pr.catid) WHERE "lft" > 1 AND "rgt" < 10 AND (...) ORDER BY cat.id OFFSET 0 LIMIT 40; We can provide more specific suggestions if you follow the advice here: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SlowQueryQuestions And please format your queries to make them more readable -- something like I did above. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance