Re: estimating # of distinct values

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: Nathan Boley <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: estimating # of distinct values
Date: 2011-01-20 02:37:56
Message-ID: AANLkTi=B90S8Whyk5KN13wJw1gqJ3UzSiJiQCHhYAONa@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> wrote:
> Also, in my personal experience this isn't really the area we've got
> problems now. The problem cases for me always were queries with a rather
> large number of joins (7 to 10 or so) plus rather complex search
> conditions. The join order, not the access strategy, then becomes the
> deciding factor in plan performance.

This certainly matches my experience (except sometimes with more joins).

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Robert Haas
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