On 9/17/07, Carlo Stonebanks <stonec(dot)register(at)sympatico(dot)ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please see the section marked as "PROBLEM" in "ORIGINAL QUERY" plan below.
> You can see it's pretty slow. Oddly enough, an index for facility_address_id
> is available but not being used, but I suspect it's questionable whether it
> would be an improvement.
This looks like it might be the problem tom caught and rigged a solution to:
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/dfetter/index.php?/archives/134-PostgreSQL-Weekly-News-September-03-2007.html
(look fro band-aid).
If that's the case, the solution is to wait for 8.2.5 (coming soon).
merlin