> Thanks for your response. I tried doing what you suggested so that table now has a primary key of ' CONSTRAINT data_area_pkey PRIMARY KEY(area_id , data_id ); ' and I've added the INDEX > of 'CREATE INDEX data_area_data_id_index ON data_area USING btree (data_id );' unfortunately it hasn't resulted in an improvement of the query performance. Here is the explain
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Did you run analyze on the table after creating the index ?
GW