Just for closure I ended up doing
ALTER TABLE bars ALTER COLUMN bars_id SET STATISTICS 500;
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Joshua Shanks" <jjshanks@gmail.com> writes:
>> How do I increase the stats target for just one column?
>
> Look under ALTER TABLE.
>
> regards, tom lane
>