pgsql: Improve histogram-filling loop in new compute_array_stats() code

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Improve histogram-filling loop in new compute_array_stats() code
Date: 2012-03-04 20:40:44
Message-ID: E1S4IEW-0002EM-TQ@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Improve histogram-filling loop in new compute_array_stats() code.

Do "frac" arithmetic in int64 to prevent overflow with large statistics
targets, and improve the comments so people have some chance of
understanding how it works.

Alexander Korotkov and Tom Lane

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master

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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4fb694aebc524f2085152d8c98a85e01ef6136f4

Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/array_typanalyze.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

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