Re: [PERFORM] Hints proposal

Andreas,

> I think we need to more precisely define the problems of our system with
> point in time statistics
>
> -- no reaction to degree of other concurrent activity
> -- no way to react to abnormal skew that only persists for a very short
> duration
> -- too late reaction to changing distribution (e.g. current date column
> when a new year starts)
> 	and the variant: too late adaption when a table is beeing filled
> -- missing cost/selectivity estimates for several parts of the system

How would we manage point-in-time statistics?  How would we collect them & 
store them?   I think this is an interesting idea, but very, very hard  to 
do ...

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--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL  <at>  Sun
San Francisco

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