Re: Functionscan estimates

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Functionscan estimates
Date: 2005-04-08 22:38:20
Message-ID: 20050408223820.GA17450@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:15:50PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if it might be useful to be able to add estimated selectivity to
> a function definition for purposes of query estimation. Currently function
> scans automatically return a flat default 1000 estimated rows. It seems
> like the DBA ought to be able to ALTER FUNCTION and give it a row estimate
> for planning purposes.

About a month ago I mentioned that I'd find that useful. In a
followup, Christopher Kings-Lynne brought up the idea of a GUC
variable that could give hints about the expected row count.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-03/msg00146.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-03/msg00153.php

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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