Brian,
> Yes, I will subscribe to the performance list, but strictly speaking the
> behaviour described should be considered a bug. The assumptions made in
> deciding what the query optimisations will be seem all skewed, and the
> end result is that the system
> isn't useful in very common cases. =/
I don't think your experience on this one query is descriptive of PostgreSQL
in general. What I'm saying is that you most likely have a tuning problem,
not a bug.
If possibilities for improving the optimizer come out of your discussion,
well, about 1/2 of the primary postgresql programmers read the performance
list.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
