On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:50:52AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Henk van Lingen <H.G.K.vanLingen@xxxxx> writes:
> > -> Bitmap Heap Scan on systemevents (cost=61221.23..668806.93 rows=239805 width=158) (actual time=9.131..1786.406 rows=464 loops=1)
> > Recheck Cond: (to_tsvector('english'::regconfig, message) @@ to_tsquery('131.211.112.9'::text))
>
> Well, there's your problem: the planner is off by a factor of about 500
> on its estimate of the number of rows matching this query, and that's
> what's causing it to pick the wrong plan. What you need to look into
> is getting that estimate to be more in sync with reality. Probably
> increasing the stats target for the message column would help.
But how can I get sane estimates for syslog data? Some searchstrings will
result in only a few hits, others in thousands of records or more.
Regards,
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