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RANDOM_PAGE_COST clarification of docs.

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Joseph Shraibman
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Bruce Momjian 2002-12-06 05:17:03 +00:00
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.160 2002/12/04 21:43:07 momjian Exp $
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<Chapter Id="runtime">
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<para>
Sets the query optimizer's estimate of the cost of a
nonsequentially fetched disk page. This is measured as a
multiple of the cost of a sequential page fetch.
multiple of the cost of a sequential page fetch. A higher
value makes it more likely a sequential scan will be used,
a lower value makes it more likely an index scan will be used.
</para>
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