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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: John A Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com>
Cc: Dan Harris <fbsd@drivefaster.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: slow joining very large table to smaller ones
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:30:02 -0400
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John A Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com> writes:
> What I don't understand is that the planner is actually estimating that
> joining against the new table is going to *increase* the number of
> returned rows.

It evidently thinks that incidentid in the k_r table is pretty
nonunique.  We really need to look at the statistics data to
see what's going on.

			regards, tom lane



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