Re: Thoughts on statistics for continuously advancing columns

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Nathan Boley <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on statistics for continuously advancing columns
Date: 2009-12-31 04:18:55
Message-ID: 4B3C262F.4080205@postnewspapers.com.au
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> While regular ANALYZE seems to be pretty good ... is it insane to
> suggest determining the min/max bounds of problem columns by looking at
> a btree index on the column in ANALYZE, instead of relying on random
> data sampling? An ANALYZE that didn't even have to scan the indexes but
> just look at the ends might be something that could be run much more
> frequently with less I/O and memory cost than a normal ANALYZE, just to
> selectively update key stats that are an issue for such continuously
> advancing columns.

... which Tom Lane already raised in a smarter way in a message I hadn't
read yet. Sorry for the noise.

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Craig Ringer

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