Re: More stable query plans via more predictable column statistics

On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 12:02 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tomas Vondra wrote:
> 
> > FWIW while looking at the code I noticed that we skip wide varlena
> > values but not cstrings. Seems a bit suspicious.
> 
> Uh, can you actually have columns of cstring type?  I don't think you
> can ...

Yeah, but then why do we handle that in compute_scalar_stats?

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