I have the following three tables: DOCUMENT id (index) documenttype date_last_updated: timestamp(6) (indexed) EXTERNAL_TRANSLATION_UNIT id (indexed) fk_id_document (indexed) EXTERNAL_TRANSLATION id (indexed) fk_id_translation_unit (indexed) Table sizes: DOCUMENT: 381 000 EXTERNAL_TRANSLATION_UNIT: 76 000 000 EXTERNAL_TRANSLATION: 76 000 000 Now the following query takes about 36 minutes to finish: SELECT u.id AS id_external_translation_unit, r.id AS id_external_translation, u.fk_id_language AS fk_id_source_language, r.fk_id_language AS fk_id_target_language, doc.fk_id_job FROM "EXTERNAL_TRANSLATION_UNIT" u JOIN "DOCUMENT" doc ON u.fk_id_document = doc.id JOIN "EXTERNAL_TRANSLATION" r ON u.id = r.fk_id_translation_unit WHERE doc.date_last_updated >= date(now() - '171:00:00'::interval) ORDER BY r.id LIMIT 1000 This is the query plan: <http://postgresql.nabble.com/file/n5864045/qp1.png> If I remove the WHERE condition, it returns immediately. Am I doing something obviously wrong? Thank you for any ideas. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Query-1000-slowdown-after-adding-datetime-comparison-tp5864045.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - performance mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance