On 2020-Jun-20, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > ... oh, now I see: apparently, your filter condition is such that *no* > > rows of the objectcustomfieldvalues table get past the filter: > > > > -> Index Scan using objectcustomfieldvalues3 on objectcustomfieldvalues objectcustomfieldvalues_1 (cost=0.56..807603.40 rows=915 width=4) (actual time=21165.441..21165.441 rows=0 loops=1) > > Filter: ((disabled = 0) AND ((largecontent ~~* '%958575%'::text) OR ((content)::text ~~* '%958575%'::text))) > > Rows Removed by Filter: 19030904 > You said you'd increased the stats target for > objectcustomfieldvalues.objectid, but maybe the real problem is needing > to increase the targets for content and largecontent, in hopes of driving > down the estimate for how many rows will pass this filter condition. ... but those on content and largecontent are unanchored conditions -- are we still able to do any cardinality analysis using those? I thought not. Maybe a trigram search would help? See contrib/pg_trgm -- as far as I remember that module is able to work with LIKE conditions. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services