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On 22/9/2025 18:09, Frédéric Yhuel wrote:
> On 9/22/25 15:57, Andrei Lepikhov wrote:
> I wonder if we could devise another kind of extended statistic that 
> would provide these "partitioned statistics" without actually partitioning.I'm not sure I fully understand your case, but SQL Server demonstrates 
an interesting approach: they have a WHERE clause attached to 
statistics. So, having implemented this, you may separate the whole 
range of values inside the table into 'partitions' by such a WHERE 
condition.
It may solve at least one issue with the 'dependencies' statistics: a 
single number describing the dependency between any two values in the 
columns often leads to incorrect estimations, as I see.

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regards, Andrei Lepikhov