=?GB2312?B?RmVsaXgu0Ow=?= <ygnhzeus@gmail.com> writes:
> //line 194 : In a "most common values" slot, staop is the OID of the "="
> operator used to decide whether values are the same or not.
> //line 206 : A "histogram" slot describes the distribution of scalar data.
> staop is the OID of the "<" operator that describes the sort ordering.
> I don't understand the function of staop here, how is it used in optimizer,
In principle a data type could have more than one sort ordering, and if
we were to collect stats according to multiple orderings, staop would be
needed to identify which ordering a particular set of statistics was
created with. That flexibility isn't being used right now, at least not
by any built-in code. There are types with more than one ordering (more
than one btree opclass), but ANALYZE only collects stats for the default
btree opclass.
regards, tom lane