diff --git a/crates/ipx/src/db.rs b/crates/ipx/src/db.rs
index b6055e8..955b03e 100644
--- a/crates/ipx/src/db.rs
+++ b/crates/ipx/src/db.rs
@@ -117,6 +117,15 @@ async fn create_missing(orm: &sea_orm::DatabaseConnection) -> Result<()> {
             orm.execute_unprepared(sql).await.with_context(|| sql.to_owned())?;
         }
     }
+    // An expression index has no statistics until its table is analysed, and without them
+    // Postgres guessed a third of entries were recent and read them all, entries_recent unused
+    // (#274). Analysed once when they are missing; autovacuum keeps them after.
+    if orm.get_database_backend() == sea_orm::DbBackend::Postgres {
+        let has = Statement::from_string(sea_orm::DbBackend::Postgres, "SELECT 1 FROM pg_stats WHERE tablename = 'entries_recent'");
+        if orm.query_one_raw(has).await?.is_none() {
+            orm.execute_unprepared("ANALYZE entries").await.context("analysing entries")?;
+        }
+    }
     if orm.execute_unprepared("SELECT recheck FROM signal_verdicts LIMIT 0").await.is_err() {
         let sql = "ALTER TABLE signal_verdicts ADD COLUMN recheck BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false";
         orm.execute_unprepared(sql).await.with_context(|| sql.to_owned())?;