On Wed, 19 May 2010, David Jarvis wrote:
     extract( YEAR FROM m.taken ) BETWEEN 1900 AND 2009 AND

That portion of the WHERE clause cannot use an index on m.taken. Postgres does not look inside functions (like extract) to see if something indexable is present. To get an index to work, you could create an index on (extract(YEAR FROM m.taken)).

Matthew

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