From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL - Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
Subject: | Re: WIP: cross column correlation ... |
Date: | 2011-02-24 03:58:08 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTikVJXfORX3KkmP5Hj-_91n8CAtnzozdkq7A5RSK@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> If you want to take the above as in any way an exhaustive survey of
>> the landscape (which it isn't), C seems like a standout, maybe
>> augmented by the making the planner able to notice that A1 = x1 AND A2
>> = x2 is equivalent to (A1,A2) = (x1, x2) so you don't have to rewrite
>> queries as much.
>>
>> I don't really know how to handle the join selectivity problem. I am
>> not convinced that there is a better solution to that than decorating
>> the query. After all the join selectivity depends not only on the
>> join clause itself, but also on what you've filtered out of each table
>> in the meantime.
>
> Thinking some more, I think another downside to the "decorate the query"
> idea is that many queries use constants that are supplied only at
> runtime, so there would be no way to hard-code a selectivity value into
> a query when you don't know the value. Could a selectivity function
> handle that?
Beats me. What do you have in mind?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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