----- "nha" <lyondif02@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Another way could concern the hash join. It has been shown that this > step costs a lot with respect to the overall runtime. Depending on > available storage space and DBMS load, a kind of materialized view > may > be handled in order to cut off the overloading join. Here are some > suggested statements to create this helper table: > [snip] Hi nha, Sorry about the long lag after your last post. I didn't want to post back until I had something solid to report on. Using a materialized view turned out to be the best way to solve my problem. My coworker designed a new table that consists of the key columns for 3 large tables that were being joined. A trigger is used to make sure the "materialized view" is kept up-to-date. Since new data is added infrequently (once a month), the cost of keeping the materialized view up-to-date is cheap. The resulting query runs exceedingly fast! :) Thank you so much for your guidance. I have learned a lot from this incident! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general