Re: Proposal: collect frequency statistics for arrays

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> writes:
> I have following proposal. Currently the ts_typanalyze function accumulates
> frequency statistics for ts_vector using lossy counting technique. But no
> frequency statistics is collecting over arrays. I'm going to generalize
> ts_typanalyze to make it collecting statistics for arrays too. ts_typanalyze
> internally uses lexeme comparison and hashing. I'm going to use functions
> from default btree and hash opclasses of array element type in this
> capacity. Collected frequency statistics for arrays can be used for && and
> @> operators selectivity estimation.

It'd be better to just make a separate function for arrays, instead of
trying to kluge ts_typanalyze to the point where it'd cover both cases.
        regards, tom lane