On 28/05/10 04:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIFVyYmHFhHNraQ==?= <wulc...@wulczer.org> writes:
>> On 19/05/10 21:01, Jesper Krogh wrote:
>>> In practice, just cranking the statistics estimate up high enough seems
>>> to solve the problem, but doesn't
>>> there seem to be something wrong in how the statistics are collected?
> 
>> The algorithm to determine most common vals does not do it accurately.
>> That would require keeping all lexemes from the analysed tsvectors in
>> memory, which would be impractical. If you want to learn more about the
>> algorithm being used, try reading
>> http://www.vldb.org/conf/2002/S10P03.pdf and corresponding comments in
>> ts_typanalyze.c
> 
> I re-scanned that paper and realized that there is indeed something
> wrong with the way we are doing it.

> So I think we have to fix this. 

Hm, I'll try to take another look this evening (CEST).

Cheers,
Jan

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