Thanks for the tuning tips. I'll definitely be taking advantage of them. Problem solved, Tom Lane found that using coalesce in my query the way I did caused it to make a bad estimation, when I changed it the query went from 60 seconds to 1 second. Sim
See <http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pg-5minute.htm> for a quick, up-to-date, intro to postgres tuning. Kind regards, Isak ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
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