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 @ Sun
San Francisco
