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Naive question. Wouldn't sampling a power law dataset be straightforward? The idea is there's only a few outlier values, and the rest are uncommon. This distrib
by srcreigh 6y ago
Naive question. Wouldn't sampling a power law dataset be straightforward? The idea is there's only a few outlier values, and the rest are uncommon. This distribution seems extremely common. Ie column with mostly NULL values and the rest somewhat unique non null strings.
I'm curious what data you saw and why the sampling didn't work?
- ldng 6y agoI'm curious, will he answered given his vested interest in "exabyte-scale analytical database" ? :-) And laurenz_albe has a vested interest in PG as he's a contributor. So I, too, would love more concrete details.
- kikimora 6y agoI think the problem is PG does not know underlying data distribution and use one sampling strategy which works for normally distributed data.