Hello, for a PostgreSQL 8.4.13 database + pgbouncer on a 32 GB RAM machine with CentOS 6.3 / 64 bit I use the following settings: max_connections = 100 shared_buffers = 4096MB work_mem = 32MB checkpoint_segments = 32 # to shut up nightly pg_dump escape_string_warning = off # to shut up Drupal 7.19 warnings log_min_duration_statement = 10000 And the latter statement always reports me just 1 command (besides Drupal which I can't fix): LOG: duration: 12590.394 ms statement: select count(id) from ( select id, row_number() over(partition by yw order by money desc) as ranking from pref_money ) x where x.ranking = 1 and id='OK471018960997' This command comes from a PHP-script of mine which displays "medals" on a player profile page - meaning how many times she won a weekly tournament: # \d pref_money Table "public.pref_money" Column | Type | Modifiers --------+-----------------------+----------------------------------------- id | character varying(32) | money | integer | not null yw | character(7) | default to_char(now(), 'IYYY-IW'::text) Indexes: "pref_money_yw_index" btree (yw) Foreign-key constraints: "pref_money_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES pref_users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE Does anybody please have an idea how could I optimize it or should I introduce a hourly job and a "medals" column (that would make my players stats less "live")? Here is the EXPLAIN output (which I hardly understand) for a player with 9 weekly medals: # explain analyze select count(id) from ( select id, row_number() over(partition by yw order by money desc) as ranking from pref_money ) x where x.ranking = 1 and id='OK452217781481'; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=63694.22..63694.23 rows=1 width=82) (actual time=4520.719..4520.719 rows=1 loops=1) -> Subquery Scan x (cost=48519.10..63694.19 rows=11 width=82) (actual time=4470.620..4520.710 rows=6 loops=1) Filter: ((x.ranking = 1) AND ((x.id)::text = 'OK452217781481'::text)) -> WindowAgg (cost=48519.10..57190.58 rows=433574 width=26) (actual time=4293.315..4491.652 rows=429803 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=48519.10..49603.03 rows=433574 width=26) (actual time=4293.306..4352.544 rows=429803 loops=1) Sort Key: pref_money.yw, pref_money.money Sort Method: external sort Disk: 15856kB -> Seq Scan on pref_money (cost=0.00..7923.74 rows=433574 width=26) (actual time=0.006..41.907 rows=429803 loops=1) Total runtime: 4525.662 ms (9 rows) Thank you for any hints Alex -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general