Re: Estimates not taking null_frac element into account with @@ operator? (8.4 .. git-head)
Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
From: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2011-02-17T22:35:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2011-02-17 23:20, Tom Lane wrote: > Jesper Krogh<jesper@krogh.cc> writes: >> When something evaluates to "null" isn't included in the result, >> shouldn't the query-planner >> then take the null_frac into account when computing the estimate? > The proposed patch seems wrong to me: if we're estimating on the basis > of most-common-value fractions, the null_frac is already accounted for, > because it's not part of the MCV selectivity fractions. IOW, aren't you > double-counting the null fraction? It might be the wrong place to fix, but here it seems like we're only counting MCE-freqs based on non-null elements: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/tsearch/ts_typanalyze.c;h=2654d644579fd1959282d83919474f42540ca703;hb=HEAD#l396 And the testdata confirms the behaviour. -- Jesper