"Carlo Stonebanks" <stonec.register@sympatico.ca> writes:
> Is there a rule of thumb about when the planner's row estimates are too high?
> In particular, when should I be concerned that planner's estimated number of
> rows estimated for a nested loop is off? By a factor of 10? 100? 1000?
Not really. It's a big enough difference for the planner to make a bad
decision or it isn't. But if you pressed me I would say a factor of 10 is bad.
A factor of 2 is inevitable in some cases.
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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
