Incredible!  Setting enable_nestloop off temporarily for the run of this script 
made it run in less than a minute (had been running in 10 or 11 minutes).  I 
think you have found a solution for many of my slow running scripts that use 
these same type of joins.  Thanks again.
Julie


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 1:18 PM
>>To: Davenport, Julie
>>Cc: Tomas Vondra; [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] query taking much longer since Postgres 8.4 upgrade

>>>>On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Davenport, Julie <[email protected]> 
>>>>wrote:
>>>> This helped, is now down from 14.9 min to 10.9 min to run the entire 
>>>> script.  Thanks.

>>can you try disabling nestloop and see what happens?   In the session,
>>before running the query, isssue:
>>set enable_nestloop = false;

>>merlin

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