On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Jim Nasby <j...@nasby.net> wrote: >> I agree that looking for information on block level sampling >> specifically, and its impact on estimation quality is likely to not >> turn up very much, and whatever it does turn up will have patent >> issues. > > > We have an entire analytics dept. at work that specializes in finding > patterns in our data. I might be able to get some time from them to at least > provide some guidance here, if the community is interested. They could > really only serve in a consulting role though.
I think that Greg had this right several years ago: it would probably be very useful to have the input of someone with a strong background in statistics. It doesn't seem that important that they already know a lot about databases, provided they can understand what our constraints are, and what is important to us. It might just be a matter of having them point us in the right direction. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
