Hi all, We tend to do a lot of lookups on our database that look something like: select e.id from employee e ,app_user au where au.id=user_id and au.corporation_id=$1 and e.ssn is not null and e.ssn!=' ' and e.ssn!='' and e.deleted='N'and bytea2text(DECRYPT(decode(e.ssn,'hex'), text2bytea(cast(e.id as text)), 'bf'))=$2 The analyze here looks like: > explain analyze select e.id from employee e ,app_user au where au.id=user_id and au.corporation_id=41197 and e.ssn is not null and e.ssn!=' ' and e.ssn!='' and e.deleted='N'and bytea2text(DECRYPT(decode(e.ssn,'hex'), text2bytea(cast(e.id as text)), 'bf'))='188622250'; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nested Loop (cost=0.00..19282.05 rows=122 width=8) (actual time=24.591..192.435 rows=1 loops=1) -> Index Scan using emp_del on employee e (cost=0.00..18625.99 rows=122 width=16) (actual time=24.556..192.398 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: (deleted = 'N'::bpchar) Filter: ((ssn IS NOT NULL) AND (ssn <> ' '::text) AND (ssn <> ''::text) AND (bytea2text(decrypt(decode(ssn, 'hex'::text), text2bytea((id)::text), 'bf'::text)) = '188622250'::text)) -> Index Scan using app_user_pkey on app_user au (cost=0.00..5.36 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=0.032..0.033 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: (au.id = e.user_id) Filter: (au.corporation_id = 41197) Total runtime: 192.565 ms (8 rows) It would appear that almost 100% of this time is taken up by doing the bytea2text and decrypt() functions. How would I create an index based on the results of the decrypt and bytea2text function to improve this select statement? Thanks! -- Anthony -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general