Robert Haas escribió:
> > Which raises the issue, if we could get better statistics by passing
> > the whole table, why not do that when VACUUM ANALYZE is run?
>
> I think the reason is "because the next autovacuum would undo it".
Is there any way to "merge" the statistics? i.e. if a full table scan
is done to compute precise statistics, and later a regular analyze scan
is done, then perhaps instead of clobbering the previous stats, you
merge them with the new ones, thus not completely losing those previous
ones.
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