On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:50:52AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
  > Henk van Lingen <h.g.k.vanlin...@uu.nl> writes:
  > >          ->  Bitmap Heap Scan on systemevents  (cost=61221.23..668806.93 
rows=239805 width=158) (actual time=9.131..1786.406 rows=464 loops=1)
  > >                Recheck Cond: (to_tsvector('english'::regconfig, message) 
@@ to_tsquery('131.211.112.9'::text))
  > 
  > Well, there's your problem: the planner is off by a factor of about 500
  > on its estimate of the number of rows matching this query, and that's
  > what's causing it to pick the wrong plan.  What you need to look into
  > is getting that estimate to be more in sync with reality.  Probably
  > increasing the stats target for the message column would help.

  But how can I get sane estimates for syslog data? Some searchstrings will
  result in only a few hits, others in thousands of records or more.

  Regards,


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