>
> So there's a misjudgment of the number of rows returned by a factor of
> about 88. That's pretty big. Since you had the same number without the
> receipt date (I think...) then it's the encounter_id that's not being
> counted right.
>
> Try upping the stats target on that column and running analyze again and
> see if you get closer to 112 in your analyze or not.
>
If I max the statistics targets at 1000, I get:
Seq Scan on detail_summary ds (cost=0.00..1903030.26 rows=1099 width=4)
Filter: ((receipt >= '1998-12-30'::date) AND (encounter_id = ANY
('{8813186,8813187,8813188,8813189,8813190,8813191,8813192,8813193,8813194,8813195,8813196,8813197,8813198,8813199,8813200,8813201,8813202,8813203,8813204,8813205,8813206,8813207,8813208,8813209,8813210,8813211,8813212,8813213,8813214,8813215,8813216,8813217,8813218,8813219,8813220,8813221,8813222,8813223,8813224,8813225,8813226,8813227,8813228,8813229,8813230,8813231,8813232,8813233,8813234,8813235,8813236,8813237,8813238,8813239,8813240,8813241,8813242,8813243,8813244,8813245,8813246,8813247,8813248,8813249,8813250,8813251,8813252,8813253,8813254,8813255,8813256,8813257,8813258,8813259,8813260,8813261,8813262,8813263,8813264,8813265,8813266,8813267,8813268,8813269,8813270,8813271,8813272,8813273,8813274,8813275,8813276,8813277,8813278,8813279,8813280,8813281,8813282,8813283,8813284,8815534}'::integer[])))
Setting it ot 500 makes the estimated rows twice as much. It
seems to have no effect on anything though, either way. :)
Steve