Hello all! Thank you for the answers I got.
I would like to mention first, that I will use the [SQL] list for my answers, regarding the notice of Josh Berkus. Q: "did you use VACUUM ANALYZE"? A: This table was a test bed, just using INSERTS without ANY deletes or updates (See: vacuum verbose analyze wetter; NOTICE: --Relation wetter-- NOTICE: Pages 149752: Changed 0, reaped 194, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 20340000: Vac 26169, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, UnUsed 0, MinLen 52, MaxLen 52; Re-using: Free/Avail. Space 1467792/1467792; EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/194. CPU 6.10s/1.78u sec. ) Q: You should upgrade to 7.1.3? A: Can you tell me the specific the reason? Am afraid, that the real answer is not mentioned: Why is the index used in the SELECT: select * from wetter order by epoche desc; select * from wetter where epoche between '1970-01-01' and '1980-01-01' order by epoche asc; ? Any ideas? -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With best regards Reiner Dassing ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster