Re: [HACKERS] Re: Top N queries and disbursion

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Roberto Cornacchia <rcorna@tin.it>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-10-08T16:19:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > Yes, you have the crux of the issue.  I wrote it because it was the best
> > thing I could think of, but it is non-optimimal.  Because all the
> > optimal solutions seemed too slow to me, I couldn't think of a better
> > one.
> 
> Thank you, Tom and Bruce.
> This is not a good news for us :-(. In any case, is 1/disbursion the
> best estimate we can have by now, even if not optimal?

That is the best one maintained by the database.

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