"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> It's now been an hour and 30 minutes; so, while 8.4 does a much better
> job of estimating how many rows will be returned, the plan it
> generates is much slower for this query.
Can you let it run to completion? Without explain analyze results
it's going to be pretty difficult to isolate the problem.
regards, tom lane