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Tom Lane 732bfa2448 Fix cost estimation for indexscan filter conditions.
cost_index's method for estimating per-tuple costs of evaluating filter
conditions (a/k/a qpquals) was completely wrong in the presence of derived
indexable conditions, such as range conditions derived from a LIKE clause.
This was largely masked in common cases as a result of all simple operator
clauses having about the same costs, but it could show up in a big way when
dealing with functional indexes containing expensive functions, as seen for
example in bug #6579 from Istvan Endredy.  Rejigger the calculation to give
sane answers when the indexquals aren't a subset of the baserestrictinfo
list.  As a side benefit, we now do the calculation properly for cases
involving join clauses (ie, parameterized indexscans), which we always
overestimated before.

There are still cases where this is an oversimplification, such as clauses
that can be dropped because they are implied by a partial index's
predicate.  But we've never accounted for that in cost estimates before,
and I'm not convinced it's worth the cycles to try to do so.
2012-04-11 20:24:17 -04:00
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README

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
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file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
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instructions.

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