Re: Multivariate MCV list vs. statistics target

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Multivariate MCV list vs. statistics target
Date: 2019-06-30 07:34:32
Message-ID: CAKJS1f9M1mmdfW0G+PS-dgO2xdPer9LsPkaH3e6c2GEnrW-XKw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 19:09, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hmm, maybe. I can certainly understand your dislike of using text[].
> I'm not sure that we can confidently say that multivariate statistics
> won't ever need additional tuning knobs, but I have no idea at the
> moment what they might be, and nothing else has come up so far in all
> the time spent considering MCV lists and histograms, so maybe this is
> OK.

I agree with having the stxstattarget column. Even if something did
come up in the future, then we could consider merging the
stxstattarget column with a new text[] column at that time.

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