Tom Lane escribió:
> If you want ANALYZE to be cheap then you simply don't get to have a
> trustworthy value of ndistinct.
But then, maybe it's not all that critical that ANALYZE is cheap. For
example, if we were to rework VACUUM ANALYZE so that on the same pass
that VACUUM cleans each heap page, a callback is called on the page to
grab the needed stats.
Partial vacuum is a roadblock for this though :-(
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