On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:53:15AM -0400, AgentM wrote:
> One simple first step would be to run an ANALYZE whenever a  
> sequential scan is executed. Is there a reason not to do this? It  

Yes. You want a seqscan on a small (couple pages) table, and ANALYZE has
a very high overhead on some platforms.

Just recording the query plan and actual vs estimated rowcounts would be
a good start, though. And useful to DBA's, provided you had some means
to query against it.
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