Re: [HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] General Bug Report: Bug in optimizer

Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>

From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: bamby@marka.net.ua, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-03-18T18:58:22Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> My guess is that the creation of the index updates the table size
> statistics.

Yes.

> However, when I see zero size, I don't know if it is accurate, or if
> someone has added rows since the last vacuum/index creation, so I think
> it is correct to use an index on a zero-length table if it is
> appropriate.  If the size is 1, I will assume that number is accurate,
> and do a sequential scan.
> 
> Does that make sense?

Yes. But we have to fix SeqScan for field1 = -1...

Vadim