Re: Range types do not display in pg_stats

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
> create table tstztest( trange tstzrange );
>
> postgres=# insert into tstztest select tstzrange(t, t + interval '1 month')
> from generate_series('2012-01-01'::timestamptz,'2018-01-01','1 month')
> as gs(t);
> INSERT 0 73
> postgres=# analyze tstztest;
> ANALYZE
> postgres=# select * from pg_stats where tablename = 'tstztest';
>  schemaname | tablename | attname | inherited | null_frac | avg_width |
> n_distinct | most_common_vals | most_common_freqs | histogram_bounds
> | correlation | most_common_elems | most_common_elem_freqs |
> elem_count_histogram
>
------------+-----------+---------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+------------------+-------------------+------------------
> +-------------+-------------------+------------------------+----------------------
>  public     | tstztest  | trange  | f         |         0 |        22 |
>         -1 |                  |                   |
> |             |                   |                        |
>
> Now, there actually *is* a histogram for the column, which you can find
> via pg_statistic.  But is shows up as NULL in pg_stats view.
>
> If this is a known issue, we ought to at least add it to the docs.

It probably has to do with the CASE stakind stuff in the definition of
the pg_stats view.  Try \d+ pg_stats to see what I mean.

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