From: | Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: stats are way off on 8.4 b1 |
Date: | 2009-04-18 12:02:08 |
Message-ID: | 2f4958ff0904180502x65dd00b5r614bba6ce73eb7ef@mail.gmail.com |
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2009/4/18 Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>:
> Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> Can correlation be negative ?
>
> Yes, if the data in the column are in descending order. For example:
>
> postgres=# CREATE TABLE foo(id int4);
> CREATE TABLE
> postgres=# INSERT INTO foo SELECT 1000 - generate_series(1, 1000);
> INSERT 0 1000
> postgres=# ANALYZE foo;
> ANALYZE
> postgres=# SELECT attname, correlation FROM pg_stats WHERE tablename='foo';
> attname | correlation
> ---------+-------------
> id | -1
> (1 row)
aye, thanks.
--
GJ
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