"Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I'm not sure offhand whether the existing correlation stats would be of use for
> it, or whether we'd have to get ANALYZE to gather additional data.
Please forgive the tangent, but would it be practical to add support for gathering statistics on an arbitrary expression associated with a table, rather than just on materialized columns? For example:
analyze my_tab for expression 'my_func(my_tab.col)' ;
It seems like any time you'd consider using a functional index, this feature would let the planner calculate decent selectivity estimates for the expression's otherwise opaque data distribution. The expression might be treated as a virtual column on the table; not sure if that helps or hurts. Should I post this question on pgsql-hackers?
