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From: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Mike Broers <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: query of partitioned object doesnt use index in qa
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:26:06 +0200
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On 09/16/2017 12:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
>> I'm wondering if we should extend the new CREATE STATISTICS
>> framework to be able to do that without requiring an index.
> 
> I think that's already on the roadmap --- it's one of the reasons we 
> ended up with a SELECT-like syntax for CREATE STATISTICS. But it 
> didn't get done for v10.
> 

Right. It's one of the things I'd like to be working on after getting in
the more complex statistics types (MCV & histograms).

> If we do look at that as a substitute for "make an expression index
> just so you get some stats", it would be good to have a way to
> specify that you only want the standard ANALYZE stats on that value
> and not the extended ones.
> 

Not sure I understand what you mean by "extended" - the statistics we
collect for expression indexes, or the CREATE STATISTICS stuff? I assume
the former, because if you don't want the latter then just don't create
the statistics. Or am I missing something?

regards

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Tomas Vondra                  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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