somewhat slow query with subselect

Hi list,

I have a table, not that many rows (400k) but with about 55 columns.
There are some maintenance selects I want to do (every now and then)
that I don't want to add indexes for.

select
...
from
quite_big_table qbt
where
qbt.owner = 123 AND
exists (
select null
from quite_big_table qbt2
where
qbt2.owner = qbt.owner AND
qbt2.id <> qbt.id AND
qbt2.filelength = qbt.filelength
)

In a case with some 5000 rows belonging to owner 123, this select really
takes a long time. Way longer than without the subselect and order by
filelength. I agree that with the subselect it would take some extra
juice, but in my mind it would do some hash in memory which wouldn't be
too slow to lookup in.

shared_buffers = 16GB
temp_buffers = 1GB
work_mem = 32MB
maintenance_work_mem = 1GB
#server has 64GB (64bit)

I guess there is some penalty because of the size (# columns) of the
table since it has to go thru more blocks on the disk. Would it have
been beneficial if filelength was in a joined child table instead?

How would you do this? Create a temporary table with owner+filelenght?

Thanks!
Marcus