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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/planstats.sgml2
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml
index 2df6559accc..a60ff54a6ce 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml
@@ -409,6 +409,26 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>MCF</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Most Common Frequency, that is the frequency associated with some
+ Most Common Value
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><acronym>MCV</acronym></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Most Common Value, one of the values appearing most often within a
+ particular table column
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><acronym>MITM</acronym></term>
<listitem>
<para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/planstats.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/planstats.sgml
index df85ea5eea4..d2b84b301f5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/planstats.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/planstats.sgml
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM tenk1 WHERE stringu1 = 'xxx';
<acronym>MCV</acronym>s:
<programlisting>
-selectivity = (1 - sum(mvf))/(num_distinct - num_mcv)
+selectivity = (1 - sum(mcv_freqs))/(num_distinct - num_mcv)
= (1 - (0.00333333 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 +
0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003 + 0.003))/(676 - 10)
= 0.0014559