Optimizing Outer Joins - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Hello,

if i have the following (simple) table layout:

create table a (
   id serial primary key
);

create table b (
   id integer references a,
   test text
);

create view c as
   select a.id,b.test from a
   left join b
   on a.id = b.id;

So if i do a select * from c i get the following:

test=# EXPLAIN SELECT * from g;
                            QUERY PLAN
----------------------------------------------------------------
  Hash Left Join  (cost=2.45..8.91 rows=8 width=36)
    Hash Cond: ("outer".id = "inner".id)
    ->  Seq Scan on a  (cost=0.00..1.08 rows=8 width=4)
    ->  Hash  (cost=2.16..2.16 rows=116 width=36)
          ->  Seq Scan on b  (cost=0.00..2.16 rows=116 width=36)

and a select id from c executes as

test=# EXPLAIN SELECT id from g;
                           QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------
  Hash Left Join  (cost=2.45..7.02 rows=8 width=4)
    Hash Cond: ("outer".id = "inner".id)
    ->  Seq Scan on a  (cost=0.00..1.08 rows=8 width=4)
    ->  Hash  (cost=2.16..2.16 rows=116 width=4)
          ->  Seq Scan on b  (cost=0.00..2.16 rows=116 width=4)

so the only difference is the width estimation.

But why is the scan on table b performed?
If i understand it correctly this is unnecessary because the
result contains only rows from table a.

Is there a way to tell postgres not to do the extra work.
My aim is to speed up lookup to complex joins.

Thanks

Sebastian