Performance-Problem

Hi,

I had the following problem: I have a table with around 5Mio entries.
I joined this table with a table with about 50 entries. Doing a insert into
another_table <my select-statement>. I am sure the select-statement might be
optimized but after 6 days of running I had to reboot the machine for other
reasons. The Machine is a 2CPU E250 Sun Sparc running 7.0.3.
Anybody has an idea (besides SQL-Tuning) how to get faster? Maybe take a look
at 7.1, since this is not a production database yet.
The SQL-Statement (yes I know I should post this, too, but I don't have access
to the script right now) was called from a perlscript using DBI/DBD and I have
set -F in the PGOPTIONS-parameter as well as AutoCommit to 0.

Konstantin
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