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Tom Lane 54d20024c1 Fix some problems with selectivity estimation for partial indexes.
First, genericcostestimate() was being way too liberal about including
partial-index conditions in its selectivity estimate, resulting in
substantial underestimates for situations such as an indexqual "x = 42"
used with an index on x "WHERE x >= 40 AND x < 50".  While the code is
intentionally set up to favor selecting partial indexes when available,
this was too much...

Second, choose_bitmap_and() was likewise easily fooled by cases of this
type, since it would similarly think that the partial index had selectivity
independent of the indexqual.

Fixed by using predicate_implied_by() rather than simple equality checks
to determine redundancy.  This is a good deal more expensive but I don't
see much alternative.  At least the extra cost is only paid when there's
actually a partial index under consideration.

Per report from Jeff Davis.  I'm not going to risk back-patching this,
though.
2007-03-21 22:18:12 +00:00
config Better solution to the tr problem: use sed instead. Per Martijn and Andrew. 2006-11-30 22:21:24 +00:00
contrib Fix uninitialized value in pgstatindex leading to invalid values being 2007-03-16 15:06:43 +00:00
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src Fix some problems with selectivity estimation for partial indexes. 2007-03-21 22:18:12 +00:00
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configure Native shared memory implementation for win32. 2007-03-21 14:39:23 +00:00
configure.in Native shared memory implementation for win32. 2007-03-21 14:39:23 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically not 2007-01-05 22:20:05 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Replace useless uses of := by = in makefiles. 2007-02-09 15:56:00 +00:00
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more
common listed below:

C++ - http://thaiopensource.org/development/libpqxx/
JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org
ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org
Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/
PHP - http://www.php.net
Python - http://www.initd.org/
Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/

Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing
parties.

PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available,
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PL/pgSQL - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Perl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/PHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp
PL/Python - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Java - http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/projdisplay.php
PL/Tcl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution

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PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
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