Re: [GENERAL] Increasing statistics results in worse estimates

From: Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Increasing statistics results in worse estimates
Date: 2005-05-02 03:53:33
Message-ID: 20050502035333.87033.qmail@web50109.mail.yahoo.com
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--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> [ redirecting to pgsql-hackers-win32 ]
>
> Thanks for sending me the test data. The bad news
> is that I can't
> reproduce any strange behavior here: the stats get
> marginally more
> accurate as the target goes up, just as you'd
> expect. So it would
> seem there is something broken about ANALYZE on
> Windows. There's
> not anything magic about this particular dataset,
> AFAICS.
>
> Which Windows build are you using, exactly?
>

The installation was 8.0 which was upgraded to 8.0.2
via the official win32 installer. I followed the
appropriate directions listed in the installer archive
for upgrading.

Regards,

Shelby Cain

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