| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Proposed patch to make mergejoin cost estimation more symmetric |
| Date: | 2007-12-07 14:57:49 |
| Message-ID: | 20071207145749.GC5192@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I do have a longer term issue that there is no information provided by
> > EXPLAIN to allow us to differentiate these two conditions.
>
> Sure there is: the new startup condition affects the estimated plan
> startup cost (only) and the existing termination condition affects the
> estimated total cost (only).
Yes, but how can you tell by looking at the explain? I think the point
is that the "fraction that would be skipped" should be reported somehow.
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