On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 16:34, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On ons, 2011-08-31 at 15:38 +0300, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
>> I'm getting really surprising planner estimates for a query that's
>> joining another table via a varchar field. All of this was tested on
>> PostgreSQL 8.4.8, 9.0.4 and 9.1rc1.
>
> By any chance, did it work better in 8.4.7?
No. Estimates on 8.4.7 are pretty much the same (139820, 139820 and 9455)
(I built and installed 8.4.7 with a clean database)
Regards,
Marti Raudsepp
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