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-rw-r--r--src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c b/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c
index eaf4e1cb337..75f2487757e 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c,v 1.207 2006/06/06 17:59:57 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c,v 1.208 2006/06/07 17:08:07 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -674,20 +674,18 @@ bitmap_path_comparator(const void *a, const void *b)
Cost bcost;
Selectivity aselec;
Selectivity bselec;
- Selectivity diff;
cost_bitmap_tree_node(pa, &acost, &aselec);
cost_bitmap_tree_node(pb, &bcost, &bselec);
/*
- * Since selectivities are often pretty crude, don't put blind faith
- * in them; if the selectivities are within 1% of being the same, treat
- * them as equal and sort by cost instead.
+ * If selectivities are the same, sort by cost. (Note: there used to be
+ * logic here to do "fuzzy comparison", but that's a bad idea because it
+ * fails to be transitive, which will confuse qsort terribly.)
*/
- diff = aselec - bselec;
- if (diff < -0.01)
+ if (aselec < bselec)
return -1;
- if (diff > 0.01)
+ if (aselec > bselec)
return 1;
if (acost < bcost)