Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm guessing that the problem is that the selectivity estimate for >> co_name_vec @@ to_tsquery('plastic&tubes') is not very good, but I'm >> not real familiar with full text search, so I'm not sure whether >> there's anything sensible you can do about it. Yeah, the bad selectivity estimate seems to be the entire problem --- if that were even slightly closer to reality the planner would've preferred the nestloop. I don't think there's a good solution to this in 8.3, because its estimator for @@ is just a stub. There will be a non-toy estimator in 8.4, fwiw. A possibility that seems a bit less crude than turning off hashjoins is to reduce random_page_cost, so as to bias things toward nestloop indexscans in general. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance