On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
>> Yeah -- I have a case where a large number of joins are happening that
>> have a lot of filtering based on expressions and things like that.
>
> Might be worth your while to install some indexes on those expressions,
> if only to trigger collection of stats about them.
Not practical -- these expressions are all about 'outlier culling'.
It's just wasteful to materialize indexes for stastical purposes only.
Anyways, in this case, I just refactored the query into a CTE.
Hm -- what if you could flag a table dependent expression for being
interesting for statistics? Or what about planner hints for boolean
expressions (ducks) ... 'likely(boolexpr)'?
merlin