Go to file
Tom Lane 21a39de580 Tweak index costing for problems with partial indexes.
btcostestimate() makes an estimate of the number of index tuples that will
be visited based on knowledge of which index clauses can actually bound the
scan within nbtree.  However, it forgot to account for partial indexes in
this calculation, with the result that the cost of the index scan could be
significantly overestimated for a partial index.  Fix that by merging the
predicate with the abbreviated indexclause list, in the same way as we do
with the full list to estimate how many heap tuples will be visited.

Also, slightly increase the "fudge factor" that's meant to give preference
to smaller indexes over larger ones.  While this is applied to all indexes,
it's most important for partial indexes since it can be the only factor
that makes a partial index look cheaper than a similar full index.
Experimentation shows that the existing value is so small as to easily get
swamped by noise such as page-boundary-roundoff behavior.  I'm tempted to
kick it up more than this, but will refrain for now.

Per report from Ruben Blanco.  These are long-standing issues, but given
the lack of prior complaints I'm not going to risk changing planner
behavior in back branches by back-patching.
2012-01-29 18:37:14 -05:00
config Enable compiling with the mingw-w64 32 bit compiler. 2011-12-10 15:35:41 -05:00
contrib Fix error detection in contrib/pgcrypto's encrypt_iv() and decrypt_iv(). 2012-01-27 23:09:16 -05:00
doc Add caution about multiple unique indexes breaking plpgsql upsert example. 2012-01-28 21:06:41 -05:00
src Tweak index costing for problems with partial indexes. 2012-01-29 18:37:14 -05:00
.gitignore Add gitignore for mingw/cygwin build outputs 2011-06-09 18:11:47 +02:00
aclocal.m4 Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
configure Use __sync_lock_test_and_set() for spinlocks on ARM, if available. 2012-01-07 15:38:52 -05:00
configure.in Use __sync_lock_test_and_set() for spinlocks on ARM, if available. 2012-01-07 15:38:52 -05:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyright notices for year 2012. 2012-01-01 18:01:58 -05:00
GNUmakefile.in Build src/ before contrib/ in make world 2011-08-24 21:34:49 +03:00
Makefile Allow make check in PL directories 2011-02-15 06:52:12 +02:00
README Remove useless whitespace at end of lines 2010-11-23 22:34:55 +02:00
README.git Trivial typo fix. 2010-09-21 14:16:00 -04:00

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, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.