From 982b26c0a935a79f973181a40bf4448e2859cdfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 05:17:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] RANDOM_PAGE_COST clarification of docs.
Joseph Shraibman
---
doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index b1c96d9824c..8821835b1b5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.160 2002/12/04 21:43:07 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.161 2002/12/06 05:17:03 momjian Exp $
-->
<Chapter Id="runtime">
@@ -841,7 +841,9 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql
<para>
Sets the query optimizer's estimate of the cost of a
nonsequentially fetched disk page. This is measured as a
- multiple of the cost of a sequential page fetch.
+ multiple of the cost of a sequential page fetch. A higher
+ value makes it more likely a sequential scan will be used,
+ a lower value makes it more likely an index scan will be used.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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