On Friday, February 22, 2013 at 21:47 , Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I suspect you would be better off without those two indexes, and
> instead having an index on (conversation_id, created_at). Not just
> for the query you show, but in general.


Indeed, that solved it, thanks!
 


> In my experience these problems come largely from the planner not
> knowing the cost of dealing with each tuple. I see a lot less of
> this if I raise cpu_tuple_cost to something in the 0.03 to 0.05
> range.


Is this something I can just frob a bit without worrying about it adversely 
impacting database performance across the board, or should I be very careful 
and do lots of testing on a staging box first?


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