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From: "Joshua Shanks" <jjshanks@gmail.com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: query planner not using the correct index
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Just for closure I ended up doing

ALTER TABLE bars ALTER COLUMN bars_id SET STATISTICS 500;

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Joshua Shanks" <jjshanks@gmail.com> writes:
>> How do I increase the stats target for just one column?
>
> Look under ALTER TABLE.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>