Hi maybe i should give you some more explanations of my problem.
The reason for which i think that postgresql run out of memory is that: I have a relation with 6 fields, 29 indexes and 32000 registers, the registers where made up using a pgsql language to save disk space, and they "work" (see the table schema under those lines) Column | Type | Modifiers --------+--------------+----------- id | integer | p1 | character(1) | p4 | character(1) | p6 | character(1) | p7 | character(1) | p9 | character(1) | Indexes: "h2iab" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'H-2*IAb'::character varying)) "h2iad" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'H-2*IAd'::character varying)) "h2iak" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'H-2*IAk'::character varying)) "h2ied" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'H-2*IEd'::character varying)) "hladqa10501" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DQA1*0501'::character varying)) "hladqb10201" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DQB1*0201'::character varying)) "hladr" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DR'::character varying)) "hladr1" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DR1'::character varying)) "hladr13" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DR13'::character varying)) "hladr3" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DR3'::character varying)) "hladr7" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DR7'::character varying)) "hladrb10101" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101'::character varying)) "hladrb10102" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0102'::character varying)) "hladrb10301" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0301'::character varying)) "hladrb10302" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0302'::character varying)) "hladrb10401" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0401'::character varying)) "hladrb10402" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0402'::character varying)) "hladrb10701" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0701'::character varying)) "hladrb10802" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0802'::character varying)) "hladrb10901" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0901'::character varying)) "hladrb11101" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*1101'::character varying)) "hladrb11102" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*1102'::character varying)) "hladrb11103" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*1103'::character varying)) "hladrb11104" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*1104'::character varying)) "hladrb11301" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*1301'::character varying)) "hladrb11302" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*1302'::character varying)) "hladrb11501" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*1501'::character varying)) "hladrb40101" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB4*0101'::character varying)) "hladrb50101" btree (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB5*0101'::character varying)) when i do a query as: select * from precalc where idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101')<-2; it works and return 128030 registers if i do select * from precalc where idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101')>-2; 3071970 registers, it don't work ERROR: relation "pssms" does not exist CONTEXT: SQL statement "select score from PSSMS where AA= $1 and POS=1 and MOLEC= $2 " PL/pgSQL function "idr" line 11 at SQL statement if i ask for explanation for both queries works: mhc2db=> explain select count(*) from precalc where idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101')<-2; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=66188.88..66188.89 rows=1 width=0) -> Bitmap Heap Scan on precalc (cost=17615.20..63522.21 rows=1066667 width=0) Recheck Cond: (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101'::character varying) < -2::double precision) -> Bitmap Index Scan on hladrb10101 (cost=0.00..17348.54 rows=1066667 width=0) Index Cond: (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101'::character varying) < -2::double precision) (5 rows) mhc2db=> explain select count(*) from precalc where idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101')>-2; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=66188.88..66188.89 rows=1 width=0) -> Bitmap Heap Scan on precalc (cost=17615.20..63522.21 rows=1066667 width=0) Recheck Cond: (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101'::character varying) > -2::double precision) -> Bitmap Index Scan on hladrb10101 (cost=0.00..17348.54 rows=1066667 width=0) Index Cond: (idr(p1, p4, p6, p7, p9, 'HLA-DRB1*0101'::character varying) > -2::double precision) (5 rows) and the index used are the correct ones If for that reason that i think that my machine runs out of memory, by the way, this is not the biggest table that i have others have more than 503000000 registers, so if I try to do a cross select between tables it could be worse. Any idea? Thanks pau -- Pau Marc Muñoz Torres Laboratori de Biologia Computacional Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina Vicent Villar Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) telèfon: 93 5812807 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]