From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Estimation problem with a LIKE clause containing a /
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:22:28 -0500
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"Guillaume Smet" <guillaume.smet@gmail.com> writes:
> On Nov 8, 2007 12:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I've applied a patch that might help you:
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00104.php> AFAICS, it doesn't seem to fix the problem. I just compiled
> REL8_1_STABLE branch and I still has the following behaviour:
OK, I tried it in fr_FR locale and what I find is that
regression=# select '123/' < '1230'::text;
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)
so make_greater_string() will still think that its first try at
generating an upper-bound string is good enough. However
regression=# select '123/1' < '1230'::text;
?column?
----------
f
(1 row)
so the data starting with '123/' is still outside the generated range,
leading to a wrong estimate. I didn't see this behavior yesterday but
I was experimenting with en_US which I guess has different rules.
What I am tempted to do about this is have make_greater_string tack "zz"
onto the supplied prefix, so that it would have to find a string that
compares greater than "123/zz" before reporting success. This is
getting pretty klugy though, so cc'ing to pgsql-hackers to see if anyone
has a better idea.
regards, tom lane
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