Commit Graph

8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
0c1fe3d2b9 Update SQL-command reference pages for schema features. 2002-04-23 02:07:16 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
c05f29e895 Augment the date/time examples in the User's Guide to reflect the newer
capabilities of specifying time zones as intervals per SQL9x.
Put refentrytitle contents on the same line as the tag.
 Otherwise, leading whitespace is propagated into the product, which
 (at least) messes up the ToC layout.
Remove (some) docinfo tags containing dates. Best to omit if the dates
 are not accurate; maybe use CVS dates instead or leave them out.
2002-04-21 19:02:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bf43bed848 Spell-check and markup police 2002-01-20 22:19:57 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
03a321d214 Use PostgreSQL consistantly throughout docs. Before, usage was split evenly
between Postgres and PostgreSQL.
2001-12-08 03:24:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
0ad017fc64 Update various obsolete remarks about VACUUM. 2001-11-18 22:17:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
2bb6b98d5c Add a section about the planner's statistics, including a description
of the new pg_stats view.
2001-10-16 01:13:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
89a1ea4207 Put some kind of grammatical uniformity in the <refpurpose> lines. 2001-09-03 12:57:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
f905d65ee3 Rewrite of planner statistics-gathering code. ANALYZE is now available as
a separate statement (though it can still be invoked as part of VACUUM, too).
pg_statistic redesigned to be more flexible about what statistics are
stored.  ANALYZE now collects a list of several of the most common values,
not just one, plus a histogram (not just the min and max values).  Random
sampling is used to make the process reasonably fast even on very large
tables.  The number of values and histogram bins collected is now
user-settable via an ALTER TABLE command.

There is more still to do; the new stats are not being used everywhere
they could be in the planner.  But the remaining changes for this project
should be localized, and the behavior is already better than before.

A not-very-related change is that sorting now makes use of btree comparison
routines if it can find one, rather than invoking '<' twice.
2001-05-07 00:43:27 +00:00