> Tiago Antão <tra@fct.unl.pt> writes:
> > One thing it might be interesting (please tell me if you think
> > otherwise) would be to improve pg with better statistical information, by
> > using, for example, histograms.
>
> Yes, that's been on the todo list for a while.
>
> > There is a good article regarding this:
> > http://www.db2mag.com/summer00/programmer.shtml
>
> Interesting article. We do most of what she talks about, but we don't
> have anything like the ClusterRatio statistic. We need it --- that was
> just being discussed a few days ago in another thread. Do you have any
> reference on exactly how DB2 defines that stat?
>
Added to TODO:
* Keep statistics about clustering of table rows
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