Andrey Repko wrote:
> 
>     I have table ma_data, that contain above 300000 rows.
>    This table has primary key id, and field alias_id.
>    I create index (btree)on this field.
>    Set statistic:
> 
>  ALTER TABLE "public"."ma_data"
>    ALTER COLUMN "alias_id" SET STATISTICS 998;
> 
>    So, when I do something like
>      SELECT alias_id FROM ma_data GROUP BY alias_id
Why are you using GROUP BY without any aggregate functions?
What happens if you use something like
   SELECT DISTINCT alias_id FROM ma_data;
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   Richard Huxton
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