Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The structure of your query is a whole series of left outer joins, the result > of which is then (inner) joined with one more table. The outer joins return a > whole lot of records but the inner join is only going to match a few of them.
Hmmm ... actually I see 6 tables inside the join-tree and four more loose in the FROM-clause, ten relations altogether. Which means the OP is falling foul of from_collapse_limit, and it's not investigating every possible join order. Try setting from_collapse_limit to more than 10. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org