Re: Statistics Import and Export

From: Hari Krishna Sunder <hari(dot)db(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Statistics Import and Export
Date: 2025-05-20 17:32:39
Message-ID: CAAeiqZ0jqtJaigLa6WDAskRFM4gDCj3hNxmwiWs+wHU0gxCTKQ@mail.gmail.com
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Ah ya, forgot that reltuples are not always accurate. This sounds
reasonable to me.

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 02:13:45PM -0700, Hari Krishna Sunder wrote:
> > I think it would be better to revert 9879105 since there can be a
> > considerable number of true empty tables that we don´t need to process.
>
> I'm not sure that's a use-case we really need to optimize. Even with
> 100,000 empty tables, "vacuumdb --analyze-only --missing-stats-only --jobs
> 64" completes in ~5.5 seconds on my laptop. Plus, even if reltuples is 0,
> there might actually be rows in the table, in which case analyzing it will
> produce rows in pg_statistic.
>
> --
> nathan
>

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