Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > What happens if you change the > left join event.origin on event.id = origin.eventid > into > join event.origin on event.id = origin.eventid > ? > The EXISTS() requires that origin is not null anyway. (Not sure why the > planner doesn't recognize that though). Sloppy thinking in reduce_outer_joins() is why. Fixed now: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1df57f63f3f60c684aa8918910ac410e9c780713 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