hello -- On Jun 24, 2013, at 4:23 PM, bricklen wrote: > Is it safe to assume you ANALYZEd the jointable after creating it? (I assume so, just checking) yes, jointable was analyzed. both tables were further analyzed after any changes. > Can you post the output of: > > SELECT version(); > SELECT name, current_setting(name), source > FROM pg_settings > WHERE source NOT IN ('default', 'override'); version --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 9.1.1 on x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2, 64-bit (1 row) name | current_setting | source ------------------------------+--------------------+---------------------- checkpoint_completion_target | 0.9 | configuration file checkpoint_segments | 16 | configuration file DateStyle | ISO, MDY | configuration file default_statistics_target | 50 | configuration file default_text_search_config | pg_catalog.english | configuration file effective_cache_size | 5632MB | configuration file lc_messages | en_US.UTF-8 | configuration file lc_monetary | en_US.UTF-8 | configuration file lc_numeric | en_US.UTF-8 | configuration file lc_time | en_US.UTF-8 | configuration file listen_addresses | * | configuration file log_destination | stderr | configuration file log_line_prefix | %t %d %u | configuration file log_timezone | US/Pacific | environment variable logging_collector | on | configuration file maintenance_work_mem | 480MB | configuration file max_connections | 300 | configuration file max_stack_depth | 2MB | environment variable max_wal_senders | 3 | configuration file search_path | public | user shared_buffers | 1920MB | configuration file TimeZone | US/Pacific | environment variable wal_buffers | 8MB | configuration file wal_keep_segments | 128 | configuration file wal_level | hot_standby | configuration file work_mem | 48MB | configuration file (26 rows) hope this helps! thanks, ben -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance