Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> The problem is precisely that the pages a query is going to read are >> likely to *not* be a random sample, but to be correlated with >> recently-dirtied pages.
> Sure, but I was suggesting aiming for the nth percentile rather than a > linear factor which I don't know has any concrete meaning. Well, I have no problem with using a more complicated estimation equation, but it might be nice to get some field experience with the thing before we start complicating matters. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers