Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for new SET variables for optimizer costs

Looks great.  I wouldn't change a thing in your proposal.

> I am about to implement some changes to the planner/optimizer's cost
> model, following up to the thread on pghackers beginning on 20 Jan.
> The main conclusion of that thread was that we needed to charge more for
> a page fetched nonsequentially than for a page fetched sequentially.
> After further investigation I have concluded that it is also appropriate
> to include explicit modeling of the cost of evaluation of WHERE clauses.
> For example, using the regression database and a query like
> 

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