Re: OUTER JOIN performance regression remains in 8.3beta4

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> As I poked around at this, it started to seem familiar.  I had
> previously posted about this query's performance under 8.2.4.
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-10/msg00087.php

Well, that thread gave some of the missing details, such as
             Table "public.ControlRecord"      Column       |          Type          | Modifiers
--------------------+------------------------+-----------countyNo           | "CountyNoT"            | not null

but what the heck is "CountyNoT"?

It looks like 8.3 is failing to realize that it can propagate the
countyNo = 53 condition down to this table's scan, as 8.2 did;
but there's not enough details here to guess why not.
        regards, tom lane