On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
