Re: Guarantees/Semantics of pg_stats

2024-03-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Sat, 2024-03-02 at 22:29 +, Baziotis, Stefanos wrote: > Can I maybe get accurate information if the column has an index? In other > words, > are there any type of indexes through which I can get the number of distinct > values or the values themselves, without needing to scan the column? N

Re: Guarantees/Semantics of pg_stats

2024-03-02 Thread Baziotis, Stefanos
From: Laurenz Albe Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2024 04:28 To: Baziotis, Stefanos ; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: Guarantees/Semantics of pg_stats On Sat, 2024-03-02 at 07:41 +, Baziotis, Stefanos wrote: > I'm interested in learning more a

Re: Guarantees/Semantics of pg_stats

2024-03-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Sat, 2024-03-02 at 07:41 +, Baziotis, Stefanos wrote: > I'm interested in learning more about the guarantees/semantics of pg_stats. > For example, is there a guarantee that the n_distinct and most_common_vals > fields will take into account any values appearing more than M ti

Guarantees/Semantics of pg_stats

2024-03-01 Thread Baziotis, Stefanos
Hi, I'm interested in learning more about the guarantees/semantics of pg_stats. For example, is there a guarantee that the n_distinct and most_common_vals fields will take into account any values appearing more than M times or maybe with frequence more than f? In what cases will n_distinc