Re: Thoughts on statistics for continuously advancing columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Thoughts on statistics for continuously advancing columns
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Msg-id 29404.1262290710@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Thoughts on statistics for continuously advancing columns  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Thoughts on statistics for continuously advancing columns  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> Why not get both max() and min(), then rebase the histogram according to
> those values. That way the histogram can still move significantly and
> the technique will still work.

Define "rebase", keeping in mind that this has to work on datatypes that
we don't have a distance metric for.
        regards, tom lane


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