On 20 June 2017 at 07:49, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I'm not totally satisfied that there isn't any case where the smallest
> selectivity hack is appropriate. In the example you're showing here,
> the FK columns are independent so that we get more or less the right
> answer with or without the FK. But in some quick testing I could not
> produce a counterexample proving that that heuristic is helpful;
> so for now let's can it.
>
> Thanks, and sorry again for the delay.
Many thanks for taking the time on this.
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