set enable_nestloop=off did the trick.  Execution time when down to seconds
per query.

Thanks very much for your help.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 4:16 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Eric Raskin <eras...@paslists.com> writes:
> > So, things get even weirder.   When I execute each individual select
> > statement I am generating from a psql prompt, they all finish very
> > quickly.
> > If I execute them inside a pl/pgsql block, the second one hangs.
> > Is there something about execution inside a pl/pgsql block that is
> > different from the psql command line?
>
> Generic vs specific plan, perhaps?  Are you passing any parameter
> values in from plpgql variables?
>
> IIRC, you could force the matter by using EXECUTE, though it's
> somewhat more notationally tedious.  In late-model PG versions,
> plan_cache_mode could help you too.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
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