Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2B99FB92E for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:09:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82445-03 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:09:47 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8B39FB8EB for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:09:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3OI9aFx006366; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:09:36 -0400 (EDT) To: Dan Shea cc: "Richard Huxton" , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: View is not using a table index In-reply-to: <75312DFA648AF74D8A236E5269BFBE4B04292F02@ncrx3.ncr.int.ec.gc.ca> References: <75312DFA648AF74D8A236E5269BFBE4B04292F00@ncrx3.ncr.int.ec.gc.ca> <462E2537.2020706@archonet.com> <75312DFA648AF74D8A236E5269BFBE4B04292F02@ncrx3.ncr.int.ec.gc.ca> Comments: In-reply-to Dan Shea message dated "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:19 -0400" Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:09:36 -0400 Message-ID: <6365.1177438176@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/409 X-Sequence-Number: 24286 Dan Shea writes: > You make it sound so easy. Our database size is at 308 GB. Well, if you can't update major versions that's understandable; that's why we're still maintaining the old branches. But there is no excuse for not running a reasonably recent sub-release within your branch. Read the release notes, and consider what you will say if one of the several data-loss-causing bugs that were fixed long ago eats your DB: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release.html regards, tom lane