You can use the attached sql to reproduce this issue, but I'm not sure you can
get the above result at the first time that is because when optimizer think the
2 index scan have the same cost, it will choose the first one it found, the order
depends on RelationGetIndexList. If so, you may try drop and create j1_i_im5 index.
The sense behind this patch is we still use the cost based optimizer, just when we
we find out the 2 index scans have the same cost, we prefer to use the index which
have more qual filter on Index Cond. This is implemented by adjust the qual cost
on index filter slightly higher.
The issue here is not so uncommon in real life. consider a log based application, which
has serval indexes on with create_date as a leading column, when the create_date
first load the for the given day but before the new statistics is gathered, that probably run
into this issue.
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