On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:57, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca> writes:
> >> I'm not sure if that will actually change the default_statistics_target
>
> > Hmm.. I was under the impression that it would work for any tables that
> > haven't otherwise been overridden.
>
> It will. I think Scott is recalling the original circa-7.2
> implementation, where it wouldn't. If you're unsure that you
> affected it, check out the actual sizes of the array values in pg_stats.
The plan does change when I remove it and re-analyze it.
Either way, it's off by a factor of a 10^5 or so.