Re: pg_stats and range statistics

From: jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Gregory Stark (as CFM)" <stark(dot)cfm(at)gmail(dot)com>, Egor Rogov <e(dot)rogov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Soumyadeep Chakraborty <soumyadeep2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_stats and range statistics
Date: 2023-11-25 08:57:49
Message-ID: CACJufxGM427O9SDvHg0a+KNXMrraq0JG+nFzgST8rAjdd62hQQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 7:06 AM Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> Additionally, I found that the current patch can't handle infinite
> range bounds and discards information about inclusiveness of range
> bounds. The infinite bounds could be represented as NULL (while I'm
> not sure how good this representation is). Regarding inclusiveness, I
> don't see the possibility to represent them in a reasonable way within
> an array of base types. I also don't feel good about discarding the
> accuracy in the pg_stats view.
>

in range_length_histogram, maybe we can document that when calculating
the length of a range, inclusiveness will be true.

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