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Tom Lane a80818605e Improve selectivity estimation for assorted match-style operators. Quite a few matching operators such as JSONB's @> used "contsel" and "contjoinsel" as their selectivity estimators. That was a bad idea, because (a) contsel is only a stub, yielding a fixed default estimate, and (b) that default is 0.001, meaning we estimate these operators as five times more selective than equality, which is surely pretty silly. There's a good model for improving this in ltree's ltreeparentsel(): for any "var OP constant" query, we can try applying the operator to all of the column's MCV and histogram values, taking the latter as being a random sample of the non-MCV values. That code is actually 100% generic, except for the question of exactly what default selectivity ought to be plugged in when we don't have stats. Hence, migrate the guts of ltreeparentsel() into the core code, provide wrappers "matchingsel" and "matchingjoinsel" with a more-appropriate default estimate, and use those for the non-geometric operators that formerly used contsel (mostly JSONB containment operators and tsquery matching). Also apply this code to some match-like operators in hstore, ltree, and pg_trgm, including the former users of ltreeparentsel as well as ones that improperly used contsel. Since commit `911e70207` just created new versions of those extensions that we haven't released yet, we can sneak this change into those new versions instead of having to create an additional generation of update scripts. Patch by me, reviewed by Alexey Bashtanov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12237.1582833074@sss.pgh.pa.us		6 years ago
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pg_strict_word_trgm.out	Change floating-point output format for improved performance.	7 years ago
pg_trgm.out	Improve selectivity estimation for assorted match-style operators.	6 years ago
pg_word_trgm.out	Change floating-point output format for improved performance.	7 years ago