Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> It's also worth mentioning that for datatypes that only have an "="
>> operator the performance of compute_minimal_stats is O(N^2) when values
>> are unique, so increasing sample size is a very bad idea in that case.
> Hmmm ... does ANALYZE check for UNIQUE constraints?
Our only implementation of UNIQUE constraints is btree indexes, which
require more than an "=" operator, so this seems irrelevant.
regards, tom lane