Federico /* juri */ Pedemonte <fepede@inwind.it> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:23:56AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The planner has to fall back to default selectivity estimates when it's
>> looking at queries involving plpgsql variables (since it can't know
>> their actual values in advance). I suspect your problem is related to
>> an inaccurate default estimate.
> mmm... does it mean that i can't do anything about that ?
A brute-force solution is to use EXECUTE so that the query is re-planned
each time, with the planner seeing constants instead of variables
compared to the column values.
regards, tom lane
