> I'd say it's a pretty different problem. The cache hit ratio > discussion on that thread talks about underestimating the hit ratio. > That particular problem could only lead to Memoize plans *not* being > chosen when they maybe should be. Not the other way around, which is > your case. > > create statistics extdataregular_field_index_stats (ndistinct) on > field, index from extdataregular; > analyze extdataregular; > > would likely put that right. Thanks David, using extended statistics for both (and only for both) tables solved this problem. BTW, thank you for all your work on performance in recent releases.