In response to "Satish Burnwal (sburnwal)" <sburnwal@xxxxxxxxx>: > <snip> Man, it's hard to read your emails. I've reformatted, I suggest you improve the formatting on future emails, as I was about to say "to hell with this question" because it was just too difficult to read, and I expect there are others on the list who did just that. Anyway ... select report_id, dm_ip, dm_mac, dm_user, dm_os, report_time, sys_name, sys_user, sys_user_domain, ss_key, login_time, role_id, new_vlan_id from repcopy as a where report_time = ( select max(report_time) from repcopy as b where a.dm_user=b.dm_user and a.dm_ip = b.dm_ip and b.ss_key != '' ) and report_status = 0 and dm_user = 'u3'; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Index Scan using repcopy_index on repcopy a (cost=0.00..87824607.17 rows=28 width=142) (actual time=11773.105..689111.440 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: ((dm_user)::text = 'u3'::text) Filter: ((report_status = 0) AND (report_time = (subplan))) SubPlan -> Aggregate (cost=3531.30..3531.31 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=58.447..58.448 rows=1 loops=11788) -> Index Scan using repcopy_index on repcopy b (cost=0.00..3526.30 rows=2000 width=8) (actual time=0.017..36.779 rows=25842 loops=11788) Index Cond: ((($0)::text = (dm_user)::text) AND(($1)::text = (dm_ip)::text)) Filter: ((ss_key)::text <> ''::text) Total runtime: 689111.511 ms (9 rows) OK, now that I can read it, I noticed something that I missed before. Your subquery is being run separately for every row that matches report_status = 0 and dm_user = 'u3'. This is equating to 11788 executions, which seems to be a significant part of the problem. Can you rewrite the query to remove the subquery? Or at least figure out a way to filter the results more before calling the subquery. I tried to suggest a rewrite, but I've found that I simply can't understand what it is you're trying to accomplish with that query. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general