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Re: strange row count estimates with conditions on multiple column

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Dne 17.11.2010 06:58, Tom Lane napsal(a):
>> BTW I think the default estimate used to be 1000, so it was changed in
>> one of the 8.x releases? Can you point me to the docs? I've even tried
>> to find that in the sources, but unsuccessfully.
> 
> It's DEFAULT_RANGE_INEQ_SEL, and AFAIR it hasn't changed in quite a while.
> But I wouldn't be surprised if the behavior of this example changed when
> we boosted the default statistics target.

I've been thinking about this and I think it might be improved. If I
understand the logic corretly, it says 'use half of the histogram bin
size'. But the value

#define DEFAULT_RANGE_INEQ_SEL 0.005

says it's always 0.5%, which is not not true if STATISTICS TARGET is not
100. This could actually yield 10x more precise estimates when the
STATISTICS TARGET is set to 1000.

OK, I know the default value is 100, just thinking about how to improve
the estimates.

Tomas

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