most_common_elems. Is it empty, or is it not empty? If not empty, does it contain the specific values you used in your queries?
No, most_common_elems is not empty. it contain the specific values I used in queries.
@Tom
Hmmm ... actually, I wonder if maybe '@>' here is the contrib/intarray operator not the core operator? The intarray operator didn't get plugged into any real estimation logic until 9.6.
So, you mean that better would be go to version 9.6 ?
I wrote: > Seems like your problem here is that the planner has no idea about the > selectivity of this condition --- if it did, I think it would have > made the right choice, because it would have made a much higher estimate > for the cost of the indexscan.
> AFAICT, Postgres 9.5 does make a reasonably correct guess when given > up-to-date stats. I speculate that you need to ANALYZE this table.
Hmmm ... actually, I wonder if maybe '@>' here is the contrib/intarray operator not the core operator? The intarray operator didn't get plugged into any real estimation logic until 9.6.
