Hi, thanks for having a look and thinking with us On 25 March 2015 at 13:45, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you post results for this query? > > SELECT stats, COUNT(*) FROM print_list group by 1 status | count ----------------+--------- ERROR | 159 PREPARED | 10162 PRINTED | 3551367 TO_BE_PREPARED | 2 (4 rows) >> We can also increase the 'Stats target' for this table, which will >> cause the statistics to contain information about 'NOT_YET_PRINTED' >> more often, but even then, it may not find any of these records, as >> they sometimes do not exist. > > This is a better solution, IMHO. We'll have a go at this, also if what you say about values having to appear at least twice, the other values may make it into most_common_*, which would make it clearer to us. We're a bit hesitant to decrease random_page_cost (currently 3 in this cluster) as a lot more is happening on this database. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance