Hi. I have the idea: hints joined to function. For example instead of WHERE table1.field1=table2.field2 write: WHERE specificeq(table1.field1,table2.field2) and hints add to declaration of specificeq function. 2011/2/23, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am not excited about the idea of putting these correlations in >> queries. What would be more intesting would be for analyze to build a >> correlation coeffficent matrix showing how columns are correlated: >> >> a b c >> a 1 .4 0 >> b .1 1 -.3 >> c .2 .3 1 >> >> and those correlations could be used to weigh how the single-column >> statistics should be combined. > > If you can make it work, I'll take it... it's (much) easier said than > done, though. > > -- > Robert Haas > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > > -- > Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance > -- ------------ pasman -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance