Dawid Kuroczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically it tells postgres how many values should it keep for > statistics per column. The config default_statistics_target > is the default (= used when creating table) and ALTER... is > a way to change it later.
Not quite. default_statistics_target is the value used by ANALYZE for any column that hasn't had an explicit ALTER SET STATISTICS done on it. So you can change default_statistics_target and that will affect existing tables. (It used to work the way you are saying, but that was a few releases back...) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match