Are you sure you can't use inner / outer joins or unions to make this one big query? If you'll post a bit of your php code and your table design, we might be able to make some suggestions. On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Work wrote: > Hi , > > I am a newbie to the world of Postgres, I am currently optimizing > PHP/Postgres applications. My problem is that I have a query that throws > certain rowsets and depending on these values I loop other tables to get the > desired columns. I am using a heavy for-loop for this purpose, within the > for-loop I have further sub-queries, so that for every loop iteration I > execute these sub-queries, I dont see a way to reorganize this structure. > Can somebody suggest a better way. > > Thanks > Regards > Sid > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > -- "Force has no place where there is need of skill.", "Haste in every business brings failures.", "This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power." -- Herodotus