I am transforming a db with millions records to anther schema. for some reason I need to select the records using IN (xx,xx). the ids in the IN was about 1000 recored every time, but I found the query was getting slow while the selection moving on. the shared buffer is 2048M. and the cpu and io usage is as normal. But while I am processing a smaller db on another machine, which only has the default 24MB, the selection went very smooth. here is the logs: start... 0 limit:1000 selection time: 0.140721082687 sort_options msgtime start... 1000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.122759103775 start... 2000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.150802850723 start... 3000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.173918008804 start... 4000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.212812900543 start... 5000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.255054950714 start... 6000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.230540037155 start... 7000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.24426317215 start... 8000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.326669931412 start... 9000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.351358175278 start... 10000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.386382102966 start... 11000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.440491914749 start... 12000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.443608045578 start... 13000 limit:1000 selection time: 0.49751496315 start... 14000 limit:1000 selection time: 12.0050361156 start... 15000 limit:1000 selection time: 26.3596658707 start... 16000 limit:1000 selection time: 43.5269529819 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general