On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:21:35PM -0400, John D. Burger wrote: > Is there any way to set DEFAULT_STATISTICS_TARGET on a permanent basis > for a particular database? You can use ALTER DATABASE. New sessions will get the new value; you'll need to reconnect to see the effect. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/sql-alterdatabase.html -- Michael Fuhr