On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 08:30 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Henrik wrote: > > > Ahh I had exactly 8 joins. > > Following your suggestion I raised the join_collapse_limit from 8 to 10 and > > the planners decision sure changed but now I have some crazy nested loops. > > Maybe I have some statistics wrong? > > Yeah. The problematic misestimation is exactly the innermost indexscan, > which is wrong by two orders of magnitude: Nested Loops are evil.. and I've no clue on why PG has such big mis-estimates. Mine are like 1:500 I've solved mine using SRFs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend