Stuart Bishop <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > We also found this problem did not occur on one of our staging > systems, which had a default statistics target of 100. Lowering the > statistics on the relavant columns from 1000 to 100 and reanalyzing > made the overhead unnoticeable. eqjoinsel() is O(N^2) in the number of entries in the MCV lists. I wouldn't expect this to be an issue unless comparison is pretty expensive, but maybe those are string not integer columns? > Thoughts on IRC was this might be a regression in 8.4.9, but I haven't > got earlier versions to test with at the moment. eqjoinsel has worked like that for many years. Are you claiming you didn't see this behavior in a prior release? If so, which one? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general