Simon Riggs <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> The reason you get a bad plan is that this rowcount estimate is so far >> off: > That's true, but its not relevant, Yes it is --- the reason it wants to use a hashjoin instead of a nestloop is exactly that it thinks the loop would iterate too many times. (Ten is already too many in this case --- if it had estimated five rows out of the join, it'd have gone with the nestloop, since the cost estimate difference at the top level is less than 2x.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org