Re: WIP: cross column correlation ...

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Nathan Boley <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Personally, I think the first thing we ought to do is add a real, bona
>> fide planner hint to override the selectivity calculation manually,
>> maybe something like this:
>>
>> WHERE (x < 5 AND y = 1) SELECTIVITY (0.1);
>
> If you're going to go that far, why not just collect statistics on
> that specific predicate?
>
> ie,  ANALYZE SELECTIVITY ON tablename (x, y) WHERE (x < 5 AND y = 1);
>
> Then it won't fall subject to all of the pitfalls that Tom outlines below.
>
> Selectivities are easy to estimate if we know the predicate. They only
> become hard when they have to work for every possible predicate.

Fair point.

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