[PERFORM] Acceptable level of over-estimation?

[Carlo Stonebanks]

Is there a rule of thumb about when the planner's row estimates are too 
high? In particular, when should I be concerned that planner's estimated 
number of rows estimated for a nested loop is off? By a factor of 10? 100? 
1000?

Carlo 


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