Re: [HACKERS] More thoughts about planner's cost estimates

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Dean
Greg Stark wrote: Josh Berkus writes: Using a variety of synthetic and real-world data sets, we show that distinct sampling gives estimates for distinct values queries that are within 0%-10%, whereas previous methods were typically 50%-250% off, across the spectrum of data sets and q

[HACKERS] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach.

2006-05-18 Thread Michael Dean
Greetings Guys As a newbie person moving away from my technical background to marketing, I think a refreshed course for pg is needed! So far I have read all 5000 or so of this month's emails and want to make a few remarks IMHO: 1. We should treat all marketing efforts by hackers/programmer