Re: FETCH FIRST clause WITH TIES option

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 03:08:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> I've tried to fix the merge conflict (essentially by moving some of the
>> code to adjust_limit_rows_costs(), but I'm wondering if the code added to
>> create_limit_path is actually correct
>> ...
>> Firstly, this seriously needs some comment explaining why we do this.
>
>I've not looked at this patch, but TBH I wonder why it is touching
>planner rowcount estimation at all.  I find it doubtful either that
>a correction for WITH TIES would be significant in most use-cases,
>or that we could estimate it accurately if it was significant.
>It certainly doesn't seem like something that needs to be messed
>with in v1 of the feature.
>

FWIW it was me who suggested to tweak the cardinality estimation this way,
but if we want to leave it out from v1, I'm OK with that.


regards

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