* Andrew Sullivan:
> Just because I'm one of those statistics true believers, what sort of
> information do you think it is possible for the DBA to take into
> consideration, when building a hint, that could not in principle be
> gathered efficiently by a statistics system?
Some statistics are very hard to gather from a sample, e.g. the number
of distinct values in a column.
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