RE: [HACKERS] What does explain show ?

From: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] What does explain show ?
Date: 1999-07-15 08:33:01
Message-ID: 001c01bece9c$a6b43300$2801007e@cadzone.tpf.co.jp
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>
> > Is the caluculation "rows of Nested loop = rows of OuterPlan * rows of
> > InnerPlan" wrong ?
>
> Careful --- rows produced and cost are quite different things. The
> cost estimate for a nestloop is "cost of outerplan + rows of outerplan *
> cost of innerplan", but we don't necessarily expect to get as many rows
> out as the product of the row counts. Typically, it'd be lower due to
> join selectivity. Above you see only 3 rows out, which is not too bad
> a guess, certainly better than 2*15905 would be.
>

I see. rows of Join = rows of outerplan * rows of innerplan * "join
selectity".
and "join selectivity" is calcutated by eqjoinsel() etc.

Thanks.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp

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