On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:15:57PM -0700, Daniel Gish wrote: > We are running Postgresql 8.1, and getting dramatically inconsistant results > after running VACUUM ANALYZE. Sometimes after analyzing the database, the > query planner chooses a very efficient plan (15 rows, 4.744 ms), and > sometimes a terrible one (24 rows, 3536.995 ms). Here's the abbreviated > query: > > SELECT * FROM t1 INNER JOIN (t2 INNER JOIN (t3 INNER JOIN t4 ON t3.gid = > t4.gid) ON t3.gid = t2.gid) ON t2.eid = t1.eid WHERE ... How abbreviated is that example? Are you actually joining more tables than that? In another recent thread varying plans were attributed to exceeding geqo_threshold: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-01/msg00132.php Does your situation look similar? -- Michael Fuhr
