Steinar, > sort_mem is already 16384, which I thought would be plenty -- I tried > increasing it to 65536 which made exactly zero difference. :-)
Well, then the next step is increasing the statistical sampling on the 3 join columns in that table. Try setting statistics to 500 for each of the 3 cols, analyze, and see if that makes a difference. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html