Greets, I'm trying to figure out why the following SELECT has become slow (hardware, code changes, etc) and would appreciate any comments on interpreting the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output. It *used* to take a few seconds at most, but not anymore... In figuring out which part is taking so long, what's the important bit to examine (besides making sure indexes are being used)? Presumably "actual time="? If I can identify which index is taking the longest from the output below, then I can look at moving it to a faster TABLESPACE or something. explain analyze SELECT pl.sss, pl.did, pl.lid, pr.rank, plc.obl FROM plink pl LEFT JOIN prank pr USING (did) LEFT JOIN plink_count plc ON md5(plc.did)=md5(pr.did) LEFT JOIN snames s ON s.name=pl.sss WHERE s.bsit=0 AND s.disabled=0 AND s.prankignore=0 AND pl.lid = lower(E'stuff'); Nested Loop Left Join (cost=22717.85..40240.86 rows=47 width=177) (actual time=532299.546..532385.533 rows=1 loops=1) -> Nested Loop Left Join (cost=22717.84..40055.65 rows=47 width=205) (actual time=532299.546..532385.533 rows=1 loops=1) -> Hash Join (cost=22717.84..39936.36 rows=47 width=141) (actual time=532297.546..532383.533 rows=1 loops=1) Hash Cond: (pl.sss = s.name) -> Index Scan using sk_plink3 on plink pl (cost=0.00..17155.35 rows=16718 width=141) (actual time=0.000..0.000 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: (lid = 'stuff'::text) -> Hash (cost=22717.57..22717.57 rows=22 width=32) (actual time=461886.321..461886.321 rows=164147851 loops=1) Buckets: 1024 Batches: 8 (originally 1) Memory Usage: 1548289kB -> Bitmap Heap Scan on snames s (cost=18260.53..22717.57 rows=22 width=32) (actual time=45939.971..351687.125 rows=164147851 loops=1) Recheck Cond: ((bsit = 0) AND (prankignore = 0)) Filter: (disabled = 0) -> BitmapAnd (cost=18260.53..18260.53 rows=4455 width=0) (actual time=43802.298..43802.298 rows=0 loops=1) -> Bitmap Index Scan on snames7 (cost=0.00..9130.13 rows=890933 width=0) (actual time=20285.896..20285.896 rows=178144776 loops=1) Index Cond: (bsit = 0) -> Bitmap Index Scan on sk_snames20 (cost=0.00..9130.13 rows=890933 width=0) (actual time=22245.596..22245.596 rows=178186036 loops=1) Index Cond: (prankignore = 0) -> Index Scan using sk_prank on prank pr (cost=0.00..2.53 rows=1 width=64) (actual time=2.000..2.000 rows=0 loops=1) Index Cond: (pl.did = pr.did) -> Index Scan using skplink_count0 on plink_count plc (cost=0.00..3.92 rows=1 width=36) (actual time=0.000..0.000 rows=0 loops=1) Index Cond: (md5(plc.did) = md5(pr.did)) Total runtime: 532386.533 ms Thanks Henry -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general