Sorry for the semi-newbie question...

I have a relatively sizable postgresql 9.0.2 DB with a few large tables (keep in mind "large" is relative, I'm sure there are plenty larger out there).

One of my queries that seems to be bogging-down performance is a join between two tables on each of their BIGINT PK's (so they have default unique constraint/PK indexes on them). One table is a detail table for the other. The "master" has about 6mm rows. The detail table has about 131mm rows (table size = 17GB, index size = 16GB).

I unfortunately have limited disks, so I can't actually move to multiple spindles, but wonder if there is anything I can do (should I partition the data, etc.) to improve performance? Maybe some further tuning to my .conf, but I do think that's using as much mem as I can spare right now (happy to send it along if it would help).

DB is vacuumed nightly with stats updates enabled. I can send the statistics info listed in pgAdmin tab if that would help.

Any suggestions, tips, tricks, links, etc. are welcomed!

Thanks in advance,
AJ



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