RE: Use of index in 7.0 vs 6.5

From: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "'Hiroshi Inoue'" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Ryan Bradetich <ryan_bradetich(at)hp(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: Use of index in 7.0 vs 6.5
Date: 2000-05-25 17:17:41
Message-ID: 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A23018C05@SECTORBASE1
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> Yeah, a scan over just the index itself would be a perfect way to
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I believe that Oracle updates index statistic on-fly...
Meta-page is always in cache for inserts, so there will be no
additional reads.

> gather stats. The normal objection to it (can't tell whether entries
> correspond to currently-valid tuples) doesn't apply, because we don't
> really care whether the stats are perfectly accurate.

Vadim

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