Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This new query of mine pegs beta4, it doesn't return and CPU is at 100%: > select l.id_location,l.name, > a.city > from location l, address a, show_date x, show s, show s2 > where (l.id_address = a.id_address > and x.id_location = l.id_location > and s.id_show = x.id_show > and s2.show_type = s.show_type and s2.id_show = 305) > or l.id_location = 172; > The tables are not big, at most a few hundred elements each, if that. > Maybe the query itself is flawed, I'd say so. Any l row with id_location = 172 joins to the cartesian product of all the other tables. I doubt that's what you meant. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/