On 6/9/08, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Where analyze does systematically fall down is with databases over 500GB > in > > size, but that's not a function of d_s_t but rather of our tiny sample > size. > > > n_distinct. For that Josh is right, we *would* need a sample size > proportional > to the whole data set which would practically require us to scan the whole > table (and have a technique for summarizing the results in a nearly > constant > sized data structure). > > Hi, is this (summarizing results in a constant sized data structure) something which could be achived by Bloom-Filters ? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-06/msg00076.php
Kind regards Hakan Kocaman