Re: help debugging an issue with selectivity

Greg Hennessy <greg.hennessy@gmail.com> writes:
> I am not sure if this belongs in pgsql-general or pgsql-hackers, I am 
> trying first in psgl-general.

Doesn't matter a lot, but as Rob noted, you should not hijack an
existing thread.  Start your own thread, don't reply to an unrelated
message.

> When I actually execute this, I get output to the terminal of the form:
> WARNING:  join_selectivity: operator id 16818 jointype 0 0
> WARNING:  HERE0 pgq3c_seljoin.... 5.873266e-12
> WARNING:  datum result 4438812783922730423 0.000000
> WARNING:  HERE0 pgq3c_seljoin.... 5.873266e-12
> WARNING:  join_selectivity: 0.000000 16818 jointype 0
> WARNING:  join_selectivity: s1 0.000000
> WARNING:  clause_selectivity: s1 0.000000

> where it seems to me the q3c code is returning a non zero value, but in 
> the guts of postgres what is found is a zero value.

I don't see any discrepancy in your results, only in your choices of
printf specifiers.  "%f" defaults to "%.6f", that is, print only six
digits after the decimal point.  So a value down around 1e-12 is
going to print as all zeroes.

            regards, tom lane