On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 08:35, Klint Gore wrote: > In the docs it says "Plan-reading is an art that deserves an extensive > tutorial, which this is not". Is there one? I've gone beyond simple > queries (which are performing well) to the more difficult queries (which > aren't). Red Hat has a tool called "Visual explain" that shows explain output graphically: http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/ It might help understand what's going on. Bye, Chris. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org