Re: PostgreSQL index usage discussion.

From: "Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro" <lamigo(at)atc(dot)unican(dot)es>
To: "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: "mlw" <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL index usage discussion.
Date: 2002-04-25 06:56:44
Message-ID: 007701c1ec26$5c64b220$cab990c1@atc.unican.es
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> I was told that DB2 has per-table (or rather per-tablespace) knowledge
> of disk speeds, so keeping separate random and seqsqan costs for each
> table and index could be a good way here (to force use of a particular
> index make its use cheap)
>

I was wondering something even easier, keeping 1 cost per index, 1 cost per
seqscan, but being allowed to scale cost for each index on each
query(recommended, null or unrecommended)
Regards

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