Statistic Estimation in PostgreSQL

From: rahulg <rahulgupta83(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Statistic Estimation in PostgreSQL
Date: 2008-10-15 18:57:56
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I am facing problem in tracing in what events the selectivity
histogram in pg_statistic is stored/updated.

I went through the code in src/backend/commands/analyze.c and got to
see the code computing the histogram but when I tried to trace the
caller of analyze_rel or compute_index_stats, I find out that only
during Vaccum command, these functions are invoked. I am little
surprised as I did get to see PostgreSQL giving good selectivity
estimations despite me running Vaccuum command even once.

I did try to trace the control flow during table operations
(creation / insertion) but couldn't find any histogram updation
functions being invoked though I did get to know that some functions
related to catalog updations is being invoked.

Can anybody tell me in what all events is the pg_statistic table
exactly updated?

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