On Wednesday 01 October 2008 03:34, Gauri Kanekar wrote:
>    ->  Nested Loop  (cost=186.26..647160.32 rows=42543 width=16) (actual
> time=655.832..6622.011 rows=5120582 loops=1)

That nested loop estimate is off by 100x, which is why the DB is using a 
slow nested loop for a large amount of data.  I'd try increasing your 
statistics collection, analyze, and re-run the query.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL
San Francisco

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