Re: Why our counters need to be time-based WAS: WIP: cross column correlation ...

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why our counters need to be time-based WAS: WIP: cross column correlation ...
Date: 2011-02-28 18:31:29
Message-ID: 4D6BEA01.1040705@agliodbs.com
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On 2/28/11 10:24 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> On the other hand, anything which increases the size of pg_statistic
>> would be a nightmare.
>
> Hmm?

Like replacing each statistic with a series of time-based buckets, which
would then increase the size of the table by 5X to 10X. That was the
first solution I thought of, and rejected.

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-- Josh Berkus
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