Re: extended statistics n-distinct on multiple columns not used when join two tables

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "James Pang (chaolpan)" <chaolpan@cisco.com>
Date: 2023-06-13T11:28:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance
út 13. 6. 2023 v 13:26 odesílatel David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
napsal:

> (moving to -hackers)
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 21:30, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > út 13. 6. 2023 v 11:21 odesílatel James Pang (chaolpan) <
> chaolpan@cisco.com> napsal:
> >>      When join two table on multiple columns equaljoin, rows estimation
> always use selectivity = multiplied by distinct multiple individual
> columns, possible to use  extended n-distinct statistics on multiple
> columns?
> >>
> >>     PG v14.8-1, attached please check test case with details.
> >
> > There is not any support for multi tables statistic
>
> I think it's probably worth adjusting the docs to mention this. It
> seems like it might be something that could surprise someone.
>
> Something like the attached, maybe?
>

+1

Pavel


> David
>

Commits

  1. Doc: mention that extended stats aren't used for joins