Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:33:19 -0700 (MST)
From: AlexK987 <alex.cue.987@gmail.com>
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Subject: How to tell ANALYZE to collect statistics from the whole table?
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The documentation states that "The extent of analysis can be controlled by
adjusting the default_statistics_target configuration variable". It looks
like I can tell Postgres to create more histograms with more bins, and more
distinct values. This implicitly means that Postgres will use a larger
random subset to calculate statistics. 

However, this is not what I want. My data may be quite skewed, and I want
full control over the size of the sample. I want to explicitly tell Postgres
to analyze the whole table. How can I accomplish that?


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