Joe Conway wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: >> It probably has something to with the fact that you didn't explain what >> you meant by "deadlock". Also, you refer to a temp table, yet don't >> indicate which table it is. Deadlock means it hangs up and doesn't terminate through timeout. The system goes into an endless loop. The part ('SELECT sid FROM stud_vera WHERE veraid = 2') seems to create a temporary table again and again and again .... >> You'll need to be a lot more specific about your problem before we can >> help. For example, a script to reproduce the problem, or a copy of psql >> output demonstrating it. There is no output. It just takes forever. We're currently working to seperate this problem into a simple setup. If we have one, I will post it. > Also EXPLAIN output, and information regarding the number of rows in > each table, and the number of rows matching veraid = 2 and veraid = 34 > might help. Explain produces the same problem. It just takes forever... > While the query is running, how much CPU is the process consuming, and > what does vmstat show for disk and swap I/O? ~80% CPU power. Disk usage is not noticable. Thanks and *greets* Kai