Per the thread from last month, I've updated the default random_page_cost on Heroku Postgres to reduce the expected cost of a random_page on all new databases. Thanks to everyone who helped come to this conclusion! Peter -- Peter van Hardenberg San Francisco, California "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance