On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Frank Joerdens" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> It seems to me that the planner makes a very poor decision with this >> particular query: > > Try increasing the stats on woouser. You need it to make a smaller > estimate of the number of matching rows here: Way cool, this alter table webapp_invite alter column woouser set statistics 50; did the trick, without cleaning up the spurious join there even. Thanks! Frank