No create statistics on starttime_endtime(distinct), that index on 
"starttime,endtime", use default analyze, I tested to increase 
statistics_targets but that no help.  Could you provide the function name for 
generic plan selectivity estimation?  

Thanks,

James

-----Original Message-----
From: David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 1:59 PM
To: James Pang (chaolpan) <chaol...@cisco.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org; jamespang...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: wrong rows and cost estimation when generic plan

On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 at 18:28, James Pang (chaolpan) <chaol...@cisco.com> wrote:
>    ->  Index Scan using idx_xxxxx_time on xxxxx  (cost=0.44..8.48 rows=1 
> width=2923) (actual time=8136.242..8136.242 rows=0 loops=1)
>          Index Cond: ((starttime = $7) AND (endtime = $8))
>          Filter: ((password IS NULL) AND ...(aid = $4) AND (bid = $5) AND 
> (btype = $6) AND...
>          Rows Removed by Filter: 5534630

I wonder if you did:

create statistics xxxxx_starttime_endtime_stats  (ndistinct) on 
starttime,endtime from xxxxx; analyze xxxxx;

if the planner would come up with a higher estimate than what it's getting for 
the above and cause it to use the other index instead.

>     optimzer is very complicated, could you direct me how optimizer to do 
> selectivity estimation when building generic plan, for this case? for 
> custom_plan, optimizer knows boundparams values, but when generic_plan, 
> planner() use boundparams=NULL,  it try to calculate average value based on 
> mcv list of the index attributes (starttime,endtime)  ?

IIRC, generic plan estimates become based on distinct estimations rather than 
histograms or MCVs.

David

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