This drift gets more confusing. My small table A (60K rows) is not being inserted to (except one or two rows) it is getting thousands of updates a minute. Analyze and vacuum on the table are running regularly. But sometimes ,every time the vacuum runs the reltuples value jumps up. Sometime bloating by 4 times the actualy size of the table (have seen 10 times) The impact of this on the query plans is evident straight away. Joins from all small A to large table B (55 Million rows) on the large B's primary key start seq scanning. Some sort of threshold is being hit where the planner believes that the size of A is big enough that given we are requesting all of A we might as well scan all of B. Also even though the table has been clustered and even vacuum full'ed the relpages value continues to grow. Any answers? -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Statistics-mismatch-between-n-live-tup-and-actual-row-count-tp5059317p5735588.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general