Re: 7.4 - FK constraint performance

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.4 - FK constraint performance
Date: 2004-02-13 02:53:45
Message-ID: 1076640825.10896.12.camel@jester
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On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 20:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > Sounds pretty bad for my case. Any way to avoid the 10% scan?
>
> Can't see how we optimize your case without pessimizing more-common cases.
> Sorry.

Statistics say there are 10 values. Statistics list the 10 most common
values (all of them). Given this, would it not be reasonable to assume
that 239 is a recent addition (if there at all) to the table and not
very common?

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