> src/backend/commands/analyze.c, around line 1930 as of CVS HEAD:
>
> /*----------
> * Estimate the number of distinct values using the
> estimator
> * proposed by Haas and Stokes in IBM Research Report
> RJ 10025:
Thanks for the pointer, Tom. I shouldn't have been surprised to find
such a nice comment pointing me at the literature.
- John D. Burger
MITRE