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From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Use fuzzy path cost tiebreaking rule in our oldest supported bra
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Msg-id E1ZQcyp-0005AW-Bp@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Use fuzzy path cost tiebreaking rule in our oldest supported branches.

We've been doing it that way since 9.2, cf commit 33e99153e93b9acc,
but some recently-added regression test cases are making a few buildfarm
members fail (ie choose the "wrong" plan) in 9.0 and 9.1 due to
platform-specific roundoff differences in cost calculations.  To fix,
back-port the patch that made add_path treat cost difference ratios of
less than 1e-10 as equal.

Branch
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REL9_1_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3218f8c33612baca0a1f44d4a243c598ddebad9d

Modified Files
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src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c |   50 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)


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