Commit 982b26c0 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

RANDOM_PAGE_COST clarification of docs.

Joseph Shraibman
parent a2bd3e20
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......@@ -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>
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