On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:46:11AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > Have you tried increasing the statistics target on l_pvcp.value? > I ran your queries against canned data in 8.2.3 and better statistics > resulted in more accurate row count estimates for this and other > parts of the plan. I don't recall if estimates for non-leading-character > matches in earlier versions can benefit from better statistics. This might work only in 8.2. I see the following in the Release Notes: * Improve the optimizer's selectivity estimates for LIKE, ILIKE, and regular expression operations (Tom) -- Michael Fuhr
