Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334A59FBA73 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:40:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 52137-09 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:40:16 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-254.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.254]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60899FB936 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:40:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org ([201.221.217.243]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4P2dm5S023188; Thu, 24 May 2007 19:39:53 -0700 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 374E632A14; Thu, 24 May 2007 22:39:22 -0400 (CLT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 22:39:22 -0400 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane Cc: George Pavlov , pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: index vs. seq scan choice? Message-ID: <20070525023922.GV4320@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <8C5B026B51B6854CBE88121DBF097A86C3A30D@ehost010-33.exch010.intermedia.net> <27828.1180055291@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <27828.1180055291@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.5, clamav-milter version 0.88.5 on projects.commandprompt.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (lists.commandprompt.com [192.168.2.159]); Thu, 24 May 2007 19:39:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/1233 X-Sequence-Number: 114427 Tom Lane wrote: > (The default statistics target is 10, which is widely considered too > low --- you might find 100 more suitable.) Does this mean that we should look into raising the default a bit? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.