Thank you for your help! I'll try in pgsql-hackers then :-)
Good :)
On 05.11.2014 18:22, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
Hi,
I'm not sure why you thought a mailing list on an admin tool would be a better fit,
if nothing fits, you just choose anything ;-) My first try was even someone from the German mailing list (that's why the subject of the mail was still German, sorry for that), but after some mail exchange he just suggested to write to a developer mailing list. So I read all the descriptions of the mailing lists and it was like "no -- no -- no --- ...."
I understand the feeling :) It's not easy to choose the good one.
but it definitely is not. Don't worry, this isn't a big issue :-)
Anyway, pgsql-hackers is the list you're looking for.
On the patch you'd like to work on, I'd advise you someone else is working on this. You should read the "WIP: multivariate statistics / proof of concept" thread on the hackers list. I'm pretty sure you could get some help from Tomas.
Patches on this topic are of high interest. If I can be of any help, let me know.
I was unsure to which mailing list to write, in my opinion psql-hackers would fit best, but as it is not recommended to write there directly, I'm trying here. I'm a phd-student at the university of Jena, Thüringen, Germany, in the field of data bases, more accurate query optimization. I want to implement a system in PostgreSQL that detects column correlations and creates statistical data about correlated columns for the optimizer. Therefore I need to store two dimensional statistics (especially two dimensional histograms) in PostgreSQL. I would like to know where I have to "touch" the source code and make changes, so that the PostgreSQL optimizer will also take into consideration my statistical data? I also need a possibility to extract data from query results (tuple counts and, speaking a little inaccurately, the where-part of the query itself). Of course I tried to have a look at the PostgreSQL source code, but it's impossible to understand everything within a few weeks or even months....
I'd be grateful for any advices. Regards,
Katharina
-- Dipl.-Math. Katharina Büchse Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Institut für Informatik Lehrstuhl für Datenbanken und Informationssysteme Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2 07743 Jena Telefon 03641/946367 Webseite http://users.minet.uni-jena.de/~re89qen/
