@Jeff
> most_common_elems. Is it empty, or is it not empty? If not empty, does > it contain the specific values you used in your queries? No, most_common_elems is not empty. it contain the specific values I used in queries. @Tom > > Hmmm ... actually, I wonder if maybe '@>' here is the contrib/intarray > operator not the core operator? The intarray operator didn't get plugged > into any real estimation logic until 9.6. So, you mean that better would be go to version 9.6 ? On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I wrote: > > Seems like your problem here is that the planner has no idea about the > > selectivity of this condition --- if it did, I think it would have > > made the right choice, because it would have made a much higher estimate > > for the cost of the indexscan. > > > AFAICT, Postgres 9.5 does make a reasonably correct guess when given > > up-to-date stats. I speculate that you need to ANALYZE this table. > > Hmmm ... actually, I wonder if maybe '@>' here is the contrib/intarray > operator not the core operator? The intarray operator didn't get plugged > into any real estimation logic until 9.6. > > regards, tom lane >