Re: A costing analysis tool

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A costing analysis tool
Date: 2005-10-17 21:17:14
Message-ID: 20051017211714.GT86144@pervasive.com
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On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 02:23:41PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Greg,
>
> > Or something like that. It might require breaking random_page_cost into two
> > or three different parameters that would normally have the same cost but
> > aren't handled the same, like random_heap_cost, random_leaf_cost, and
> > random_nonleaf_cost.
>
> Gods forbid. People don't know how to use random_page_cost as it is; how are
> they going to handle having 5 different parameters?

Well, until we try it we won't know if there's actually need for this or
not...
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