Viktor Rosenfeld <rosen...@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
>                             ->  Seq Scan on corpus toplevel (cost=0.00..1.39 
> rows=1 width=54)
>                                   Filter: (top_level AND (id = 25::numeric))

> Specifically, I'm wondering why the innermost scan on corpus  
> (toplevel) does not use the index idx_corpus__toplevel

The cost estimate indicates that there are so few rows in corpus
that an indexscan would be a waste of time.

> and why the  
> join between corpus (toplevel) and corpus (child) is not a merge join  
> using the index corpus_pre_key to access the child table.

Same answer.  Populate the table and the plan will change.

                        regards, tom lane

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