Timothy Garnett <tgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We'd still be interested in other suggestions for convincing the > query planner not to pick the bad plan in this case You could try boosting cpu_tuple_cost. I've seen some evidence that the default number is a bit low in general, so it wouldn't necessarily be bad to try your whole load with a higher setting. If that doesn't work you could set it for the one query. If that setting alone doesn't do it, you could either decrease both page cost numbers or multiply all the cpu numbers (again, probably boosting cpu_tuple_cost relative to the others). -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance