"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
The three other loose ones are attached to a table inside outer joins though. Doesn't that prevent any possibility of them being done earlier? But the first one looks like it ought to be driving the join. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend