Re: multivariate statistics / patch v7

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date: 2015-09-24T16:43:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tomas,

> attached is v7 of the multivariate stats patch. The main improvement is
> major refactoring of the clausesel.c portion - splitting the awfully
> long spaghetti-style functions into smaller pieces, making it much more
> understandable etc.

So presumably v7 handles varlena attributes as well, yes?   I have a
destruction test case for correlated column stats, so I'd like to test
your patch on it.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


Commits

  1. Collect and use multi-column dependency stats

  2. Implement SortSupport for macaddr data type

  3. Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients

  4. Generate fmgr prototypes automatically