Seth Ladd wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:express=# explain select distinct region from region;
QUERY PLAN
----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
Unique (cost=0.00..4326.95 rows=9518 width=14)
-> Index Scan using regionview_region on region (cost=0.00..4089.00
rows=95183 width=14)
(2 rows)


Thanks for the tip, I'll give this a shot soon. I am curious, your example above does not use GROUP BY yet you have an INDEX SCAN. I am using a similar query, yet I get a full table scan. I wonder how they are different?

Have you tuned your shared buffers and effective cache correctly?


Shridhar


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