Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Am Freitag, 7. Mrz 2008 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> IIRC, egjoinsel is one of the weak spots, so tests involving planning of
>> joins between two tables with large MCV lists would be a good place to
>> start.
> I have run tests with joining two and three tables with 10 million rows each,
> and the planning times seem to be virtually unaffected by the statistics
> target, for values between 10 and 800000.
It's not possible to believe that you'd not notice O(N^2) behavior for N
approaching 800000 ;-). Perhaps your join columns were unique keys, and
thus didn't have any most-common-values?
regards, tom lane