"SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH" <sharmi_jo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I understand that. But why is that when oracle is given a hint to do full > table scan instead of using index to get the count, it is still faster than > postgres when both has the same explain plan? Oracle takes 34 sec and > postgres takes 1 m10 sec . Is there anything that can be done in postgresql > for speeding this up? How large are the actual respective data files? What are the columns in these tables? Do you have many char() and NUMERIC columns? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend