On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:11:18AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Fixing this with proper stats would be great indeed. What would be the > > most common value for the kernel_version? You can see samples of the > > kernel_version here http://klive.cpushare.com/2.6.15/ . That's the > > string that is being searched against both PREEMPT and SMP. > > Try something like this where attname is the column name and tablename is, > well, the tablename: > > db=> select most_common_vals from pg_stats where tablename = 'region' and attname = 'province'; > most_common_vals > ------------------ > {ON,NB,QC,BC} Thanks for the info! klive=> select most_common_vals from pg_stats where tablename = 'klive' and attname = 'kernel_version'; most_common_vals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ {"#1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005","#1 Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005","#7 SMP Fri Oct 7 15:56:41 CEST 2005","#1 SMP Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005","#2 Thu Sep 22 15:58:44 CEST 2005","#1 Fri Sep 23 15:32:21 GMT 2005","#1 Fri Oct 21 03:46:55 EDT 2005","#1 Sun Sep 4 13:45:32 CEST 2005","#5 PREEMPT Mon Nov 21 17:53:59 EET 2005","#1 Wed Sep 28 19:15:10 EDT 2005"} (1 row) klive=> select most_common_freqs from pg_stats where tablename = 'klive' and attname = 'kernel_version'; most_common_freqs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {0.0133333,0.0116667,0.011,0.009,0.00733333,0.00666667,0.00633333,0.006,0.006,0.00566667} (1 row) klive=> There's only one preempt near the end, not sure if it would work?