Tom,
> Maybe you should ask on -admin or -general. Personally I thought there
> wasn't anything to say until someone did some experiments to show
> whether an indexed-column differential is really worthwhile and what a
> plausible default value would be. The idea sounds good in the abstract,
> but will it really help or just be another useless setting?
Yeah, that's our next step, a test.
On Monday, I hope to have comparative stats for a difficult database on the 3
solutions (leaving things as-is, raising the general default stats, and doing
index_stats).
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco