Dawn Hollingsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nested Loop (cost=0.00..466.51 rows=1 width=24) (actual > time=226.39..1018072.99 rows=9353 loops=1) > -> Subquery Scan t1 (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual > time=225.99..345.86 rows=9353 loops=1) > -> Result (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual > time=225.98..303.29 rows=9353 loops=1) > -> Seq Scan on allowed_station_view av (cost=0.00..162.53 rows=9353 > width=20) (actual time=0.01..31.77 rows=9353 loops=9353) > Total runtime: 1018092.69 msec
The planner evidently thinks that dblink() will return only one row, and consequently it chooses a plan that would be fast in that case ... but is dog-slow for 9000 rows. Probably the easiest answer is to update to 7.3 and use the new function-in-FROM syntax for invoking dblink. That should result in more useful assumptions about the number of rows returned. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])