Gaetano Mendola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Hm, it sure looks to be exactly the same plan. The performance >> difference seems to be just that the seqscans are faster. I surmise >> that in the 7.3 database you had a lot of dead rows, or at least a lot >> of free space. Possibly you need to vacuum more often to keep down the >> amount of junk in the tables.
> The two databases were created from scratch and the first > operation on it ( after a vacuum analyze ) was just that query. Y'know, I'd love to think that 7.4 is 2x faster than 7.3 on seqscanning, but I just can't believe that. We didn't do anything that could account for such a speedup. So there's got to be some inconsistency in your test conditions. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(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