Re: Statistics Import and Export

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Statistics Import and Export
Date: 2023-11-01 20:07:27
Message-ID: f0930823-d44b-21df-d718-ee3c657d9087@enterprisedb.com
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On 10/31/23 08:25, Corey Huinker wrote:
>
> Attached is v2 of this patch.
>
> New features:
> * imports index statistics. This is not strictly accurate: it
> re-computes index statistics the same as ANALYZE does, which is to
> say it derives those stats entirely from table column stats, which
> are imported, so in that sense we're getting index stats without
> touching the heap.

Maybe I just don't understand, but I'm pretty sure ANALYZE does not
derive index stats from column stats. It actually builds them from the
row sample.

> * now support extended statistics except for MCV, which is currently
> serialized as an difficult-to-decompose bytea field.

Doesn't pg_mcv_list_items() already do all the heavy work?

regards

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Tomas Vondra
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