On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Michael Nolan <htf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only thing I can come up that's happened since last night was that we > ran the nightly vacuum analyze on that database, but I did not change the > statistics target. > The answer to your question is no, parameters changes are worse would take effect after a reboot - though most are used on the very next query that runs. The vacuum would indeed likely account for the gains - there being significantly fewer dead/invisible rows to have to scan over and discard while retrieving the live rows that fulfill your query. David J.