Re: improving GROUP BY estimation

From: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: improving GROUP BY estimation
Date: 2016-03-31 20:46:13
Message-ID: CAEZATCUMr7nyW+PV1u77X8jtTasCO08GsFjV3CvAtrYEY_cQZQ@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 31 March 2016 at 21:40, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Another minor gripe is the use of a random URL as justification. This
>>> code will still be around when that URL exists nowhere but the Wayback
>>> Machine. Can't we find a more formal citation to use?
>
>> The article text refers to this 1977 S. B. Yao paper "Approximating
>> block accesses in database organizations" which doesn't appear to be
>> available online, except behind ACM's paywall at
>> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359475
>
> Well, a CACM citation is perfectly fine by my lights (especially one
> that's that far back and therefore certainly patent-free ...)
>
> Let's use something like this:
>
> See "Approximating block accesses in database organizations", S. B. Yao,
> Communications of the ACM, Volume 20 Issue 4, April 1977 Pages 260-261
>

Sounds good.

Regards,
Dean

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Alvaro Herrera 2016-03-31 20:51:18 Re: improving GROUP BY estimation
Previous Message Dean Rasheed 2016-03-31 20:43:58 Re: improving GROUP BY estimation