Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> For that matter, if we do consider sampling 5% of the table we may as well
> just go ahead and scan the whole table. It wouldn't take much longer and it
> would actually produce good estimates.
Yeah. Anything over a small fraction of a percent is going to imply
fetching every page anyway, for typical row widths. If you want ANALYZE
to be cheap then you simply don't get to have a trustworthy value of
ndistinct.
Perhaps a better plan is to try to de-emphasize use of ndistinct,
though I concede I have no idea how to do that.
regards, tom lane
