You were absolutely right Tom. Rising work_mem did the trick! Many thanks :-) What's the best value for work_mem ? Gaëtan Le 7 févr. 2010 à 07:38, Tom Lane a écrit : > =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ga=EBtan_Allart?= <gallart@xxxxxxx> writes: >> I'm experiencing an interesting issue with PostgreSQL 8.4.2-r2. >> I was running a pretty big database on another server (8.3) pretty fine. >> When I moved it to this new server, behaviour changed. > > Did you ANALYZE the database after loading it? Are you sure you > have all the parameters set similarly to what you used in the 8.3 > installation? > > (The described behavior sounds suspiciously like work_mem is not > large enough to allow a hashagg to be chosen.) > > regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general