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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to remove a table statistics ?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:44:02 -0800
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On 1/31/12 3:50 AM, Marc Mamin wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I have a weird table, upon with the queries are much faster when no
> statics were collected. 
> 
> Is there a way to delete statistics information for a table ?
> I've tried ALTER.. set STATISTICS 0 and then run ANALYZE, but it seems
> that old statistics are kept this way.
> Can I delete entries directly in pg_statistic ?
> (Postgresql 9.1)

You can, but it won't do any good; autovaccum will replace them.

It would be better to fix the actual query plan issue.  If you can, post
the query plans with and without statistics (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, please) here.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com



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