Re: Account for cost and selectivity of HAVING quals

Hello David,

On Tue, October 31, 2017 7:54 pm, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Tels <nospam-pg-abuse(at)bloodgate(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> ​​
>> That looks odd to me, it first uses output_tuples in a formula, then
>> overwrites the value with a new value. Should these lines be swapped?
>>
>
> ​IIUC it is correct: the additional total_cost comes from processing every
> output group to check whether it is qualified - since every group is
> checked the incoming output_tuples from the prior grouping is used. The
> side-effect of the effort is that the number of output_tuples has now been
> reduced to only those matching the qual - and so it now must take on a new
> value to represent this.

Ah, makes sense. Learned something new today.

Maybe it's worth to add a comment, or would everybody else beside me
understand it easily by looking at the code? :)

Thank you,

Tels