Hello
>
> The 8.4 machines have more memory than the 8.3.7 and are in general much
> better machines.
> 8.4 settings
> Shared_buffers 18GB
> effective_cache_size 18GB
>
> Machines have 72GB of RAM
> Tried turning off sequential scan on the 8.4.5 and that did not help.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions?
>
increase statistics on columns. The estimation is totally out.
Regards
Pavel Stehule
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