m_li...@yahoo.it wrote:

> testinsert contains t values between '2009-08-01' and '2009-08-09', and ne_id 
> from 1 to 20000. But only 800 out of 20000 ne_id have to be read; there's no 
> need for a table scan!
> I guess this is a reflection of the poor "correlation" on ne_id; but, as I 
> said, I don't really think ne_id is so bad correlated.
> In fact, doing a "select ne_id, t from testinsert limit 100000"  I can see 
> that data is laid out pretty much by "ne_id, t", grouped by day (that is, 
> same ne_id for one day, then next ne_id and so on until next day).
> How is the "correlation" calculated? Can someone explain to me why, after the 
> procedure above,correlation is so low???

Did you run ANALYZE after the procedure above?

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