Arctic Toucan <arctic_toucan(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes: > -- Is there something magical about the hash aggregate estimate of 200 rows? Yeah, it's the default :-( > Is this a bug, or some subtlety of the Postgres query planner? It's an, um, known deficiency --- the planner hasn't got any idea how to construct aggregated statistics for an inheritance tree. regards, tom lane