Lana ABADIE Database Engineer CODAC Section ITER Organization, Building 72/4108, SCOD, Control System Division Route de Vinon-sur-Verdon - CS 90 046 - 13067 St Paul Lez Durance Cedex - France Phone: +33 4 42 17 84 02 Get the latest ITER news on http://www.iter.org/whatsnew -----Original Message----- From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 02 January 2019 17:45 To: Abadie Lana <Lana.Abadie@xxxxxxxx> Cc: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: select query does not pick up the right index On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 04:28:41PM +0000, Abadie Lana wrote: > css_archive_3_0_0=# explain analyze select t.name, c.smpl_time,c.nanosecs,c.float_val,c.num_ val,c.str_val,c.datatype,c.array_val from sample c, channel t where t.channel_id=c.channel_i d and t.name='BUIL-B36-VA-RT-RT1:CL0001-2-ABW' order by c.smpl_time desc limit 5; > QUERY PLAN > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > Gather (cost=1004.71..125606.08 rows=5 width=150) (actual time=38737.443..1220277.244 rows > =3 loops=1) > Workers Planned: 1 > Workers Launched: 1 > Single Copy: true Do you have force_parallel_mode set ? http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2018/06/using-forceparallelmode-correctly.html -- Justin Pryzby System Administrator Telsasoft +1-952-707-8581 Hi Justin Indeed force_parallel_mode was set to on. Even after disabling it, same issue... cheers