Nikolas Everett <nik9000@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We straced the backend during the explain and it looked like the open > commands were taking several seconds each. Kind of makes me wonder if you have a whole lot of tables ("whole lot" in this context probably means tens of thousands) and are storing the database on a filesystem that doesn't scale well to lots of files in one directory. If that's the explanation, the reason the 8.3 installation was okay was likely that it was stored on a more modern filesystem. BTW, please keep the list cc'd on replies. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance