Romuald Brunet <romuald.brunet@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > After some investigation, we found out that the PostgreSQL server > (8.1) changed the execution plan (I'm assuming because the number of > rows increased). The problem seems to be that the estimate for the number of rows fetched from dc_post changed drastically --- it was in the right ballpark, and now it's off by a factor of 30. Why is that? Maybe you had had a special statistics target setting, and it got dropped? > The statistics are at the default value everywhere (10) Almost certainly not enough. 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