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On Wed, Jun  2, 2021 at 03:33:32PM -0600, sbob wrote:
> Good point... I'll try this

You could technically try to look at the pg_statistics values, but those
are only populated by random page sampling, and only current as of the
last analyze or autovacuum auto-analyze.

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