"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Oh, good point. That should be fairly easy to confirm with "top" I >> would think.
> mpstat -P ALL 5 > 01:43:38 PM CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal > %idle intr/s > 01:43:43 PM all 13.10 0.00 0.68 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 86.22 1328.20 > 01:43:43 PM 0 95.60 0.00 4.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 1000.40 OK, so it is CPU-bound after all. Do you have oprofile or anything equivalent? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match