Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> When complaining I hadn't read the pghackers thread in which you
>> suggested this, and now that I'm caught up on email I remain
>> unconvinced. What do you need convert_to_scalar for in order to display
>> the pg_statistic histogram? You've already got the underlying data.
> Then the charting tool would have to duplicate all the same code that
> convert_to_scalar has to figure out what to do with the data.
How so? The entries in the histogram are equidistant by definition.
regards, tom lane