Re: pg_stats and range statistics - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 7:06 AM Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> Additionally, I found that the current patch can't handle infinite
> range bounds and discards information about inclusiveness of range
> bounds.  The infinite bounds could be represented as NULL (while I'm
> not sure how good this representation is).  Regarding inclusiveness, I
> don't see the possibility to represent them in a reasonable way within
> an array of base types.  I also don't feel good about discarding the
> accuracy in the pg_stats view.
>

in range_length_histogram, maybe we can document that when calculating
the length of a range, inclusiveness will be true.