On Monday, October 13, 2025, David Rowley <
dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 at 17:09, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about:
>
> n_distinct_inherited exists to allow the distinct value estimate to be overwritten for the children-included statistics gathered for inheritance parent tables, and for partitioned tables.
>
> I can live with “ordinarily” with that wording, it is just the negative of “children-included”.
I've ended up reverting the text back to become more similar to how it
was but explicitly adding ", and for the statistics gathered for
partitioned tables.", since that's what the original bug report was
confused about.
I've kept the other document changes as they were in the previous patch.
WFM. Since we allow 0 as an input I’m not convinced we should remove that sentence, though I concur that using reset is preferred.
David J.
