On 1/10/11 7:25 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm a bit worried though that there might be other
> cases where the estimator comes up with 1.0 selectivity but it'd still
> be worth considering a bitmap scan.
Well, I think the answer is to apply the other fixes, and test. If
there are other cases of selectivity=1.0, they'll show up. People are
pretty fast to complain if indexes aren't used, and we have a good
production test case available once you implement the other operators.
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