Re: [HACKERS] Hints proposal

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Hints proposal
Date: 2006-10-13 22:59:17
Message-ID: 200610131559.18328.josh@agliodbs.com
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Andreas,

> I think we need to more precisely define the problems of our system with
> point in time statistics
>
> -- no reaction to degree of other concurrent activity
> -- no way to react to abnormal skew that only persists for a very short
> duration
> -- too late reaction to changing distribution (e.g. current date column
> when a new year starts)
> and the variant: too late adaption when a table is beeing filled
> -- missing cost/selectivity estimates for several parts of the system

How would we manage point-in-time statistics? How would we collect them &
store them? I think this is an interesting idea, but very, very hard to
do ...

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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