Re: Index Scans become Seq Scans after VACUUM ANALYSE

From: Thomas Lockhart <thomas(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
Cc: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex(at)apartia(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Index Scans become Seq Scans after VACUUM ANALYSE
Date: 2002-04-17 15:01:06
Message-ID: 3CBD8E32.B9F6616A@fourpalms.org
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> Weighing these factors, perhaps once we get one or two complaining about
> postgresql using an index vs 20 complaining about not using an index, then
> the optimizer values have reached a good compromise :). But maybe the ratio
> should be 1 vs 100?

:)

So we should work on collecting those statistics, rather than statistics
on data. What do you think Tom; should we work on a "mailing list based
planner" which adjusts numbers from, say, a web site? That is just too
funny :)))

- Thomas

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