doc: Reword unexplained abbreviation

danielgustafsson · danielgustafsson · commit 91199dd281f1 · 2023-04-12T16:16:12.000+02:00
The previous wording used MVF to indicate the Most Common Values' Frequencies, but the abbreviation was never explained or defined. Reword to mcv_freqs to make the use clearer. Also add MCF and MCV as acronyms as they were using <acronym> markup but were missing from the acronyms page. Reported-by: Eric Mutta <eric.mutta@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166112292492.654.5377188452604176150@wrigleys.postgresql.org
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/acronyms.sgml
@@ -408,6 +408,26 @@
     </listitem>
    </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>
diff --git 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
