Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not skilled enough at reading the "Explain Analzyze" output to > understand what the primary problem is.
The problem is the repeated execution of the subquery in the SELECT list; that's taking over 683 of the 686 seconds: > SubPlan > -> Aggregate (cost=2162.60..2162.61 rows=1 > width=0) (actual time=21.073..21.073 rows=1 loops=32424) ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ The current formulation of the query guarantees that you can't do better than a nestloop join with "sub" on the inside, and that nestloop isn't even indexed. See if you can convert it to a regular join instead of a sub-select (probably with GROUP BY instead of DISTINCT). Also, those LIKE conditions are just horrid: slow *and* unreadable. Consider redesigning your data representation. Perhaps converting info_responsible to an int array would be reasonable. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql