Hello Zhenya,
First of all - local statistics are not useless cause we can use it in
local H2 query planning phase, at least for now.
"Client ..." - any node, that can build query execution plans. I believe
that lately we can do query execution planning on client nodes. But it's a
good question and
Andrey, thanks for firing this !
Sasha it`s unclear for me « These part consists of two processes: statistics
collection process itself and acquiring statistics by the client. »:
* I agree that in both cases local statistics are useless.
May be we need more informative use cases for such statis