On 18 October 2012 17:11, Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The estimate is down to almost a 10th of what it was before. What's going on? Even though the index isn't used, the pg_statistic entries that the expression index would have made available are. It's as if you materialised the expression into a column, analyzed and grouped by that. -- Peter Geoghegan http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance