Re: LIMIT confuses the planner

Kouber Saparev <kouber(at)saparev(dot)com> writes:
> Now the planner believes there're 910 rows, which is a bit closer to the
> real data:

> swing=# select avg(length) from (select username, count(*) as length
> from login_attempt group by username) as freq;
> avg
> ----------------------
> 491.6087310427555479
> (1 row)

Hmph, that's still not real good. Ideally it should be estimating
*less* than the average frequency, because the estimate is made after
excluding all the most-common-values, which evidently 'kouber' is not
one of. I suppose there's quite a large number of infrequently-seen
usernames and the ndistinct estimate is much less than reality? (Look
at the pg_stats row for this column.) It might be worth going all the
way to stats target 1000 for this column.

regards, tom lane