Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone please please help me!!!! :-( [snip]
Relax, Steve. The people helping-out on PostgreSQL mailing lists are in 24 timezones, have real jobs (for which they actually get paid), are all volunteers (for which they don't get paid), may be going to school, take vacations, sleep, etc. It may take some time, maybe hours, or even days, depending on a variety of factors, for somebody to address your question(s). And that's assuming somebody knows, has the time, and will take an interest. I'm no expert in pgsql performance, but I suspect you'd be better-off with UW-SCSI drives in a RAID array, than doing things like trying to put different bits on different drives. There are reams of other questions, such as: Do you "vacuum analyze" regularly? Do you have sufficient sort memory? It may be that your question(s) would be more appropriately directed to the performance mailing list, rather than general. You might also help yourself by spending some time searching/browsing the performance, admin and general mailing lists archives for past discussions of issues similar to yours. Jim ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match