Execution time.

Hi,

The foll. query did not finish even after running for 20 HOURS.
I remember some discussion about a self-join bug. Could it be because of that ?
This is with the snapshot on Feb 2. Foll. is the output of explain:
Here data is a table with 2 attributes(tid, item) and about 1.1 million tuples.
c2(item1, item2) has about 87,000 tuples. I am running on a 8 processor
sun sparc with a total of 2GB memory and each processor is a
248 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-II.
I invoked postmaster as:
 postmaster -B 30000 -o "-s -F -S 16384"
The tables does not have any indices right now. Will it help with indices
for the hash join plan ?

assoc=> explain select item1, item2, count(t1.tid) into table f2_temp from
data t1, data t2, c2 where t1.item = c2.item1 and t2.item = c2.item2 and
t1.tid = t2.tid group by item1, item2;
NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:

Aggregate  (cost=211518.56 size=0 width=0)
  ->   Group  (cost=211518.56 size=0 width=0)
    ->     Sort  (cost=211518.56 size=0 width=0)
      ->       Hash Join  (cost=211518.56 size=14 width=24)
        ->         Hash Join  (cost=89881.04 size=1154369 width=16)
          ->           Seq Scan on t2  (cost=45447.18 size=1154369 width=8)
          ->           Hash  (cost=0.00 size=0 width=0)
            ->             Seq Scan on c2  (cost=3447.84 size=87571 width=8)
        ->         Hash  (cost=0.00 size=0 width=0)
          ->           Seq Scan on t1  (cost=45447.18 size=1154369 width=8)

EXPLAIN