BUG #8274: Wildly insane boolean selectivity estimates

Started by Andrew Gierthalmost 13 years ago2 messagesbugs
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#1Andrew Gierth
andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk

The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 8274
Logged by: Andrew Gierth
Email address: andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk
PostgreSQL version: 9.1.9
Operating system: any
Description:

The guy on IRC who ran into this one was using 9.1.9, but it seems to still
exist in master.

The handling of freq_null for estimating IS NOT TRUE/FALSE for boolean
columns which are all null or almost all null (enough that analyze doesn't
find any non-null values to put in MCV) is completely off in the weeds.

Suggested fix at:

https://gist.github.com/RhodiumToad/5901567

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Andrew Gierth (#1)
Re: BUG #8274: Wildly insane boolean selectivity estimates

andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk writes:

The handling of freq_null for estimating IS NOT TRUE/FALSE for boolean
columns which are all null or almost all null (enough that analyze doesn't
find any non-null values to put in MCV) is completely off in the weeds.

Doh, definitely a bit of brain fade there :-(

Suggested fix at:
https://gist.github.com/RhodiumToad/5901567

Seems reasonable, will fix.

regards, tom lane

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