James A. Robinson wrote: > I'm newly exposed to a Postgres 9.4 database system, and am > trying to understand how I might optimize a query that is taking > a long time to return. > > What I'm observing is an uncached query that takes much much > longer to complete, sometimes minutes longer, when > enable_bitmapscan is true. Even after the query result is > cached, it seems to consistently be 300 ms slower when > enable_bitmapscan is true (so taking 900 ms to return instead of > 600 ms). It would be helpful to have EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) output for both queries. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com