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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: William Sescu (Suva) <william.sescu@suva.ch>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: No result when selecting attstattarget from pg_attribute
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 09:54:14 -0500
Message-ID: <31263.1574952854@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4078c426dbbb4e18a047ec00485adba9@suva.ch>
References: <4078c426dbbb4e18a047ec00485adba9@suva.ch>

"William Sescu (Suva)" <william.sescu@suva.ch> writes:
> I was following the create statistics example from the doc
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createstatistics.html
> and wondered why I don't see any results when selecting attstattarget from pg_attribute.

attstattarget has nothing to do with extended statistics.
It's for recording "ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS n"
commands, which just control the granularity of the
regular (pg_statistic) statistics.

Look into pg_statistic_ext to see the effects of CREATE
STATISTICS.

			regards, tom lane





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