Vitaly, I'm afraid that your helper on DevShed is right; 7.5 for Windows is still in development, we've not even *started* to check it for performance yet.
Since the Merge Join is taking 90% of your query time, I might suggest increasing shared_buffers and sort_mem to see if that helps. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend