"Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Now, if we: > > # EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT t FROM foo WHERE t='X17'; > QUERY PLAN > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Seq Scan on foo (cost=0.00..18025.78 rows=1 width=8) (actual > time=0.079..565.661 rows=1 loops=1) > Filter: ((t)::text = 'X17'::text) > Total runtime: 565.689 ms > > > # EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT t FROM foo WHERE t='X17'; > QUERY PLAN > ------------------------------------------------------- > Seq Scan on foo (cost=0.00..178.00 rows=50 width=68) > Filter: ((t)::text = 'X17'::text) > (2 rows) I still think you're playing games with the output. a) This is not an EXPLAIN ANALYZE at all, there are no "actual" values. And b) there's no explanation for why the estimates should be different for this query than the previous, identical, query. Send along the actual psql session, not an edited version. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com