Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:47 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > 
> > > Index Cond: ((audit_key_dtime >= $0) AND (audit_key_dtime < $1))
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Index Cond: ((audit_key_dtime >= '2007-08-08 18:00:00'::timestamp without 
> > > time zone) 
> > >           AND (audit_key_dtime < '2007-08-08 18:01:00'::timestamp without 
> > > time zone))
> > > 
> > > This is _the_ only difference between the 2 queries where on one, the
> > > dates are provided, and the other is selected from a table.
> > > 
> > > I have no idea why the plans are so different between the two. 
> > 
> > The difference is that it has to consider the worst possibility in the
> > second case, whereas the other one knows the interval is just one minute.
> 
> Actually the dates are just 1 min apart in both cases.

Of course.  My point is that the planner doesn't know that in the first
case.

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