Hi, I have an index on the user_id field in the query below: myuser=# delete from clients where user_id like '64.22.91.%'; DELETE 22 Time: 220324.975 ms Is there any reason why it's taking 220 seconds to run this simple query? There are about 3 million rows in this table. How can I debug this? How can I check if the index is bloated or blown? From the VACUUM ANALYZE output, nothing like this is apparent. Thanks. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings