Nolan,
> As luck would have it, I just finished the latest 'emergency' part of
> the project, so I may have a day or so to play with this before the
> CIO figures out I'm done. :-)
>
> I'm hoping this turns out to be a tuning issue, as I'm still very much
> of a rookie at tuning PostgreSQL.
>
> I'll see if I can work something up. Should this go to the general
> list or somewhere else?
Send it to PGSQL-PERFORMANCE. I'll be very surprised if we can't beat MySQL's
time; we usually can on anything but aggregates.
--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco