On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 11:22:47AM -0800, Alex Kaiser wrote: > I've never messed around with extended statistics, but I'm not sure how > they would help here. From what I've read they seem to help when your query > is restricting over multiple columns. Since this query is only on one > column I'm not sure what a good "CREATE STATISTICS ..." command to run > would be to improve the query plan. Any suggestions? They wouldn't help. It seems like that was a guess. > As for how I found 'force_parallel_mode', I think I found it first here: > https://postgrespro.com/list/thread-id/2574997 and then I also saw it when > I was searching for 'parallel' on https://postgresqlco.nf . Yeah. force_parallel_mode is meant for debugging, only, and we're wondering how people end up trying to use it for other purposes. http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2018/06/using-forceparallelmode-correctly.html Did you try adjusting min_parallel_index_scan_size / min_parallel_table_scan_size ? -- Justin
