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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Igor Kustov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: default cardinality with non-existent value
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:03:24 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Igor Kustov <[email protected]> writes:
> I noticed that the optimizer expects one row when there is a
> condition on the field for which optimizer does not know the value
> based on statistics,

Actually, in this example it's probably estimating a selectivity
fraction of exactly zero (plus or minus roundoff error), but later
that gets clamped to the minimum allowed rowcount estimate of one row.
See var_eq_const's handling of the its-not-any-of-the-MCVs case:

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c;h=a96b...

The clamp-to-one-row bit is done by clamp_row_est:

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c;h...

			regards, tom lane






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