Hi all, I working now for a wile with postgres (7.4), and I have the impression that is one of the slowest dbms with which I've aver worked. Can please somebody explain to me, why this is the case? I mean, the flexibility postgres offers is great, and I really appreciate it. But if you take advantage of this it is just nearly unusable because it is so slow. For instance I have some views, which gather some data from a few tables, and in several occasions there are other views operation on these views. It is f.... slow. And I have already created indices and the query are using these indices. It can't be tha case, that a few queries, already optimzed, have such a lousy performance. And I'm only talking about select statements. For insert statements the performance is even worse. OK, I'm using rules on a view to update some tables, but hey, it cant be that updating 1 (one!!!) record takes around 3 seconds, thats unusable! With best regards Juergen Rose ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match