Stephan, > We had a discussion recently on -general about this. Right now the > planner won't push the conditions down into the arms of the union because > noone's been sure under what conditions the optimization is safe.
So, if performance is horrible with the view, I should use a dummy table to hold the Unioned data and index that instead? I can understand the difficultyof optimization. However, the example I supplied is the simplest of unions, and the two Seq Scans do seem to be proceeding against each table seperately. I think for very simple Unions (i.e. no grouping, no filtering within subqueries, etc.) that index usage would be reasonable to implement. However, I can't program it myself, so I'll have to just stick to whining and pitiful pleading <blink puppy-dog eyes, sniffle> -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])