[I'm not subscribed to this list, and i'm sending this because the man that develop our internal application is away... so i'm not aware of most of the detail, i'm only seeking to some quick fix, wait tomorrow for some better and deeper info.] [[so, please, keep me in CC]] In our organization we have develop an internal application based on LAPP, hosded on Debian GNU/Linux intel box. We are proceeding to upgrade from woody (postgres 7.2.X) to sarge (postgres 7.4.X), and missing our expectation we get impressive performance hit. ;( The application work well, apart some query that took some *MINUTES* to complete, when on 7.2 take (half of) second(s). It's a postgres problem, a simply ``top'' running on the database backend reveal that the postmaster instance eat up 99% of the cpu for all the query processing. I've just tried what i consider the ``base things to do'': + dump and reload the database + do an ``vacuumdb --analyze --full'' on the database and test before and after the query. no sensible changes. There's some differences between 7.2 and 7.4 that can be the cause of this? Please, help me. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) gaio(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711 fax +39-0434-842797 Grazie parlamento europeo! http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=53925&r=PI ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq