"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using PostgreSQL 8.1 beta 3 (packages from Debian experimental), and I > have a (rather complex) query that seems to take forever -- when the database > was just installed, it took about 1200ms (which is quite good, considering > that the 7.4 system this runs on today uses about the same time, but has > twice as much CPU power and runs sequential scans up to eight times as fast), > but now I can never even get it to complete. I've tried running it for half > an hour, but it still doesn't complete, so I'm a bit unsure what's going on.
That mdb_gruppekobling_transitiv_tillukning function looks awfully grotty ... how many rows does it return, and how long does it take to run by itself? How often does its temp table get vacuumed? A quick band-aid might be to use TRUNCATE instead of DELETE FROM to clean the table ... but if I were you I'd try to rewrite the function entirely. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly