Joshua D. Drake wrote:
We normally don't notice because most sets won't incur a penalty. We got a 
customer who
has a single table that is over 1TB in size... We notice. Granted that is the 
extreme
but it would only take a quarter of that size (which is common) to start seeing 
issues.

Right, and the only thing that makes this case less painful is that you don't really need the stats to be updated quite as often in situations with that much data. If, say, your stats say there's 2B rows in the table but there's actually 2.5B, that's a big error, but unlikely to change the types of plans you get. Once there's millions of distinct values it's takes a big change for plans to shift, etc.

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