On 10/18/14, 4:33 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 04:29:41PM +0200, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>> Another idea had was some way to tell the optimizer not to use that
>> particular index for stats lookups, but probably the use case for
>> such a feature would be a bit narrow.
>
> Well, if the index is there, why not use it? I thought the problem was
> just that you had no visibility into how those statistics were being
> accessed.
Yes, exactly; if I had had the option to disable the index from the
optimizer's point of view, I'd have seen that it's not used for looking
up any data by any queries, and thus I would have known that I can
safely drop it without slowing down queries. Which was the only thing I
cared about, and where the stats we provide failed me.
.marko