Re: [HACKERS] gsoc, text search selectivity and dllist enhancments

=?UTF-8?B?SmFuIFVyYmHFhHNraQ==?= <j.urbanski@students.mimuw.edu.pl> writes:
> Do you think it's worthwhile to implement the LC algorithm in C and send
> it out, so others could try it out? Heck, maybe it's worthwhile to
> replace the current compute_minimal_stats() algorithm with LC and see
> how that compares?

Very possibly. I repeat that the current implementation of
compute_minimal_stats is very ad-hoc code and wasn't written with an eye
to high performance. Replacing it with an algorithm that someone
actually thought about might well be worth doing.

regards, tom lane

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