Optimizing view

Hello.

I'm running `PostgreSQL 7.2 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.3'
and have some problems with queries on a view.

I've got two tables: working one and archive and one view, I've attached the description.
And here is my problem: queries on a view runs to much time.

explain analyze select status, target, attempts from messages_all where message_id = 21823;
NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:

Subquery Scan messages_all (cost=2410.78..2887.07 rows=1270 width=210) (actual time=5946.24..5948.41 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Unique (cost=2410.78..2887.07 rows=1270 width=210) (actual time=4567.78..5765.08 rows=12857 loops=1)
-> Sort (cost=2410.78..2410.78 rows=12701 width=210) (actual time=4567.75..5043.40 rows=12857 loops=1)
-> Append (cost=0.00..764.01 rows=12701 width=210) (actual time=0.62..2346.45 rows=12857 loops=1)
-> Subquery Scan *SELECT* 1 (cost=0.00..287.17 rows=917 width=210) (actual time=0.61..229.99 rows=1073 loops=1)
-> Seq Scan on messages (cost=0.00..287.17 rows=917 width=210) (actual time=0.52..157.78 rows=1073 loops=1)
-> Subquery Scan *SELECT* 2 (cost=0.00..476.84 rows=11784 width=207) (actual time=3.13..2037.05 rows=11784 loops=1)
-> Seq Scan on messages_archive (cost=0.00..476.84 rows=11784 width=207) (actual time=3.04..1216.87 rows=11784 loops=1)
Total runtime: 6101.58 msec

EXPLAIN

Too lo-o-ong for 13 000 tuples.
When I UNION 2 queries from this tables, query is pretty fast:

explain analyze select status, target, attempts from messages where message_id = 21823 union select status, target, attempts from messages_archive where message_id = 21823;
NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:

Unique (cost=7.34..7.36 rows=1 width=19) (actual time=224.32..224.34 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Sort (cost=7.34..7.34 rows=2 width=19) (actual time=224.31..224.31 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Append (cost=0.00..7.33 rows=2 width=19) (actual time=128.29..205.15 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Subquery Scan *SELECT* 1 (cost=0.00..4.24 rows=1 width=19) (actual time=128.27..128.47 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Index Scan using messages_primary on messages (cost=0.00..4.24 rows=1 width=19) (actual time=128.23..128.42 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Subquery Scan *SELECT* 2 (cost=0.00..3.10 rows=1 width=19) (actual time=76.65..76.65 rows=0 loops=1)
-> Index Scan using messages_archive_id on messages_archive (cost=0.00..3.10 rows=1 width=19) (actual time=76.63..76.63 rows=0 loops=1)
Total runtime: 225.35 msec

EXPLAIN

I've read manual on REWRITE RULES, but I can't get, how to create RULE to keep the
WHERE clause and separate one query into 2, and union them after.

Any suggestions?

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Victor Yegorov