Re: [HACKERS] multivariate statistics (v19)

On 01/31/2017 07:52 AM, Amit Langote wrote:
> On 2017/01/31 6:57, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> On 01/30/2017 09:37 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Looks good to me.  I don't think we need to keep the names very short --
>>> I would propose "standistinct", "stahistogram", "stadependencies".
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I got annoyed by the short names too.
>>
>> This however reminds me that perhaps pg_mv_statistic is not the best name.
>> I know others proposed pg_statistic_ext (and pg_stats_ext), and while I
>> wasn't a big fan initially, I think it's a better name. People generally
>> don't know what 'multivariate' means, while 'extended' is better known
>> (e.g. because Oracle uses it for similar stuff).
>>
>> So I think I'll switch to that name too.
>
> +1 to pg_statistics_ext. Maybe, even pg_statistics_extended, however
> being that verbose may not be warranted.
>

Yeah, I think pg_statistic_extended / pg_stats_extended seems fine.


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