Re: Regression in join selectivity estimations when using foreign keys

David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>

From: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-06-20T22:13:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 20 June 2017 at 07:49, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm not totally satisfied that there isn't any case where the smallest
> selectivity hack is appropriate.  In the example you're showing here,
> the FK columns are independent so that we get more or less the right
> answer with or without the FK.  But in some quick testing I could not
> produce a counterexample proving that that heuristic is helpful;
> so for now let's can it.
>
> Thanks, and sorry again for the delay.

Many thanks for taking the time on this.

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Commits

  1. Avoid regressions in foreign-key-based selectivity estimates.