Oh, the other thing you could try experimenting with are these two parameters. Your query has *way* more tables than the default values for these so you would have to raise them substantially. Given that the query was running in 30s you may find that this increases the planning time by more time than it saves in the query -- the reason these limits exist at all.. geqo_threshold join_collapse_limit from_collapse_limit -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning - Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general