Re: Stats for inheritance trees

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Yep.  It would also lower the barrier to future innovations of that
>> type, which would be a good thing, IMO.  Unfortunately we'd likely
>> need to continue to support the existing syntax at least for
>> attstattarget, which is kind of a bummer, but seems managable.  I
>> think we could throw over the syntax for ALTER TABLE ... ADD
>> STATISTICS DISTINCT since it is an 8.5-ism.
>
> Yeah --- if we think we might want to do this, now is the time,
> before we're stuck with supporting that syntax.  (I was thinking
> earlier today that attdistinct was already in 8.4, but it's not.)

If you'd be willing to look over the latest version of my
per-tablespace random_page_cost/seq_page_cost patch, which I posted to
-hackers some time in the last few days, I can get that committed and
then start working on this, if you'd like.

...Robert