Tweak tsmatchsel() so that it examines the structure of the tsquery whenever

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 4a8fcfdefbbad470c038de543ff69753ba801d58
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2010-07-31T03:27:57Z
Releases: 8.4.5
Tweak tsmatchsel() so that it examines the structure of the tsquery whenever
possible (ie, whenever the tsquery is a constant), even when no statistics
are available for the tsvector.  For example, foo @@ 'a & b'::tsquery
can be expected to be more selective than foo @@ 'a'::tsquery, whether
or not we know anything about foo.  We use DEFAULT_TS_MATCH_SEL as the assumed
selectivity of individual query terms when no stats are available, then
combine the terms according to the query's AND/OR structure as usual.

Per experimentation with Artur Dabrowski's example.  (The fact that there
are no stats available in that example is a problem in itself, but
nonetheless tsmatchsel should be smarter about the case.)

Back-patch to 8.4 to keep all versions of tsmatchsel() in sync.

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src/backend/tsearch/ts_selfuncs.c modified +25 −16