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Clamp the output of estimate_hash_bucketsize() to a sane range;

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per example from Bruno Wolff in which it produced a silly result.
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Tom Lane 2002-12-26 23:38:42 +00:00
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commit f772e6cbf7
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src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c

@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c,v 1.96 2002/12/14 00:17:55 tgl Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c,v 1.97 2002/12/26 23:38:42 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -1164,6 +1164,16 @@ estimate_hash_bucketsize(Query *root, Var *var)
if (avgfreq > 0.0 && mcvfreq > avgfreq)
estfract *= mcvfreq / avgfreq;
/*
* Clamp bucketsize to sane range (the above adjustment could easily
* produce an out-of-range result). We set the lower bound a little
* above zero, since zero isn't a very sane result.
*/
if (estfract < 1.0e-6)
estfract = 1.0e-6;
else if (estfract > 1.0)
estfract = 1.0;
ReleaseSysCache(tuple);
return (Selectivity) estfract;