Re: strange estimate for number of rows

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: strange estimate for number of rows
Date: 2003-11-13 21:52:51
Message-ID: 20031113215251.GL25546@libertyrms.info
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:37:03PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Actually, this one's on an internal box, and I think 1.5 is too low
> -- it's really just a pair of mirrored SCSI disks on a PCI controller
> in this case. That does the trick, though, so maybe I'm just being
> too conservantive.

I spoke too soon. I'd left enable_seqscan=off set. It doesn't
actually prefer an indexscan until I set the random_page_cost to .5.
I think that's a little unrealistic ;-)

A

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