=?UTF-8?Q?Piotr_Gasid=C5=82o?= <quaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > [ planner prefers this: ] > -> Index Scan using cookies2tags_key3 on cookies2tags > co2ta (cost=0.57..49.34 rows=1 width=57) (actual time=38.339..38.982 > rows=8 loops=1) > Index Cond: ((co2ta_cl_id = 97) AND (co2ta_ta_id = > ANY ('{142}'::integer[]))) > Filter: (co2ta_co_id = ANY > ('{1,123567429,123872617,123929118,123930244,123935996,123937156,123944495,123944999,123945469}'::integer[])) > Rows Removed by Filter: 32120 > [ over this: ] > -> Index Scan using cookies2tags_co_id_key2 on > cookies2tags co2ta (cost=0.58..45.24 rows=1 width=57) (actual > time=0.031..0.215 rows=8 loops=1) > Index Cond: ((co2ta_co_id = ANY > ('{123567429,123872617,123929118,123930244,123935996,123937156,123944495,123944999,123945469}'::integer[])) > AND (co2ta_cl_id = 97)) > Filter: (co2ta_ta_id = ANY ('{142}'::integer[])) > Rows Removed by Filter: 187 Well, as you can see the planner thinks these are going to cost about the same, but actually the first one fetches a lot of rows that end up getting rejected by the filter condition. That means the co2ta_ta_id condition is somewhat redundant given the other two, much more so than the co2ta_co_id condition is given the other two. If the individual conditions are estimated about right (have you checked?), then that means that this is an artifact of cross-column correlation statistics, which unfortunately Postgres doesn't know anything about. Is there any way of normalizing the data to reduce the cross-column correlations? My other advice would be to simplify and reduce the set of indexes --- IMO someone's gone way overboard with index creation here. It's unlikely that those indexes are all pulling their weight for their maintenance costs, and you can reduce problems with choosing the "wrong" index if that index simply isn't there. On the other hand, if this is a near-read-only table such that having lots of indexes is basically free, you could fix the problem by creating an index on all three columns, which should dominate both of these choices. 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