We once turned these off (in commit abe71a767b266a157836c0fd45330ec415720bef) because they caused the PostgreSQL query optimizer to use very suboptimal plans. However, PostgreSQL 9.2 has supposedly fixed this:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2.html
So let's try again.
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