Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for new SET variables for optimizer costs

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for new SET variables for optimizer costs
Date: 2000-02-05 22:01:59
Message-ID: 200002052201.RAA07126@candle.pha.pa.us
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Looks great. I wouldn't change a thing in your proposal.

> I am about to implement some changes to the planner/optimizer's cost
> model, following up to the thread on pghackers beginning on 20 Jan.
> The main conclusion of that thread was that we needed to charge more for
> a page fetched nonsequentially than for a page fetched sequentially.
> After further investigation I have concluded that it is also appropriate
> to include explicit modeling of the cost of evaluation of WHERE clauses.
> For example, using the regression database and a query like
>

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