On 09/21/2011 11:34 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: [ much omitted ] > One of the major components I'm working on is this reporting engine > that runs these major huge expensive queries (seriously, some of them > take 2-3 minutes to run) to generate data that gets dumped to an Excel > file for VPs to read (or make pretty charts out of and look smart in > board rooms). I've been trying to speed some of these queries up, but I see a serious disconnect between "realtime" and "dumped to excel". Even executives or large cell phone companies learn pretty quickly that they had better run the 3 minute query 5 minutes before the have to go to that meeting. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general