On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:11:41 -0500, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Correlation          -0.0736492
>> Correlation          -0.237136

>That has considerable impact on the
>estimated cost of an indexscan

The cost estimator uses correlationsquared.  So all correlations
between -0.3 and +0.3 can be considered equal under the assumption
that estimation errors of up to 10% are acceptable.
Servus
 Manfred

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