Thomas, Thank you. I executed the query this morning after disabling the scan types. I am including links to explain.depesz output for each of the three variations that I executed. indexscan and bitmapscan off: http://explain.depesz.com/s/sIx seqscan and bitmapscan off: http://explain.depesz.com/s/GfM bitmapscan off: http://explain.depesz.com/s/3wna Thank you, James