Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > How's being unable to distinguish "never vacuumed" from "table is > knowingly empty right now" not constrained by the representation?
Well, OK, it is constrained, but even if it weren't I'd be afraid to assume a table is totally empty, even if it was so the last time ANALYZE looked at it. The plans you get from that are spectacularly fragile. regards, tom lane