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

James Pang (chaolpan) <chaolpan@cisco.com>

From: "James Pang (chaolpan)" <chaolpan@cisco.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-06-13T11:32:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance
Thanks  for your information, yes, with multiple columns equal join and correlation , looks like extended statistics could  help reduce “significantly rows estimation”. Hopefully it’s in future version.

James

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 7:29 PM
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>; James Pang (chaolpan) <chaolpan@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: extended statistics n-distinct on multiple columns not used when join two tables



út 13. 6. 2023 v 13:26 odesílatel David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com<mailto:dgrowleyml@gmail.com>> napsal:
(moving to -hackers)

On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 21:30, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com<mailto:pavel.stehule@gmail.com>> wrote:
> út 13. 6. 2023 v 11:21 odesílatel James Pang (chaolpan) <chaolpan@cisco.com<mailto: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