> >>I found I'm suffering from an effect detailed in a previous thread titled
> >>
> >> Does "correlation" mislead the optimizer on large tables?
> >
> >
> >I don't know about large tables, but this is a big problem and
> >something I'm going to spend some time validating later today. I
> >think Manfred's patch is pretty good and certainly better than where
> >we are but I haven't used it yet to see if it's the magic ticket for
> >many of these index problems.
>
> I had to dig through a lot of archives to find this. Is this the patch,
> from last October?
>
> http://members.aon.at/pivot/pg/16-correlation.diff
>
> If so, I'll try it out and report my results.
Same guy, but that patch is pretty out of date and has been replaced
by some newer work that's much better.
From: Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Correlation in cost_index()
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:57:12 +0200
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From: Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [HACKERS] Again on index correlation
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:21:14 +0200
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