Tom Lane wrote:
> If the combination of columns is actually interesting, there might well
> be an index in place, or the DBA might be willing to create it.
I'm having a hard time imagining an interesting case where that wouldn't
be so.
> For
> that matter, have you considered the idea of examining the index
> contents to derive the statistics? Might work better than trying to get
> numbers via ANALYZE.
>
>
Sounds like a good idea.
cheers
andrew