"Carson, Leonard" <lcarson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > While acknowledging that nested loops and sequential table scans > account for 85% of the execution time which suggests that a > better query may be needed, why would the same query run in > seconds on 8.x but take minutes on 9.x? First, please show the output of this from both servers: SELECT version(); SELECT name, current_setting(name), source FROM pg_settings WHERE source NOT IN ('default', 'override'); Then, for your newer server, please follow the steps outlined here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SlowQueryQuestions My first guess would be that at some point your costing parameters were tuned on the old system, but have not yet been tuned on the new one. Rather than blindly using the old settings for the new server, it would be good to see the information requested on the above-cited page to determine good settings for the new server. -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance