On 28 March 2016 at 20:23, I wrote: > Table pa has 7522676 rows, 4834042 of which have field1 NULL, so it's > absolutely not reasonable to expect this to be an optimal strategy. > > It occurred to me that even though the majority of values are NULL, there are
1691 unique values in pa.field1, so I suppose it might seem more attractive to the planner than it should do (that's more unique values than there are scdate entries). I might just set enable_seqscan to false and leave it at that. It makes me unhappy though. Geoff