Re: Increasing statistics results in worse estimates

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Increasing statistics results in worse estimates
Date: 2005-04-29 17:26:04
Message-ID: 7127.1114795564@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general pgsql-hackers-win32

Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I had already removed proprietary data to try and
> whittle down the number of columns I needed to
> demonstrate the weirdness so I can host a dump of the
> table. However, before I take that step I should
> mention that this is the native Windows port so if
> that changes anything let me know.

Well, if I can't reproduce the misbehavior on a Unix machine then
there'll be reason to suspect a platform-specific bug ... but it's
still a bug.

It'll be important to know the exact datatypes of the columns,
as well as the database locale and encoding you are using.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Mike Nolan 2005-04-29 17:32:26 Tuning queries inside a function
Previous Message Tom Lane 2005-04-29 17:23:53 Re: Composite types as columns used in production?

Browse pgsql-hackers-win32 by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2005-05-01 17:03:55 Re: [GENERAL] Increasing statistics results in worse estimates
Previous Message Shelby Cain 2005-04-29 16:54:11 Re: Increasing statistics results in worse estimates