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Tom Lane 2003-12-29 21:44:49 +00:00
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* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/clausesel.c,v 1.61 2003/11/29 19:51:50 pgsql Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/clausesel.c,v 1.62 2003/12/29 21:44:49 tgl Exp $
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*/
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* If the calculation yields zero or negative, however, we chicken out and
* use a default estimate; that probably means that one or both
* selectivities is a default estimate rather than an actual range value.
*
* A free side-effect is that we can recognize redundant inequalities such
* as "x < 4 AND x < 5"; only the tighter constraint will be counted.
*
* Of course this is all very dependent on the behavior of
* scalarltsel/scalargtsel; perhaps some day we can generalize the approach.
*/