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+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * pg_statistic.h
+ * definition of the "statistics" system catalog (pg_statistic)
+ *
+ *
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2021, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
+ *
+ * src/include/catalog/pg_statistic.h
+ *
+ * NOTES
+ * The Catalog.pm module reads this file and derives schema
+ * information.
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+#ifndef PG_STATISTIC_H
+#define PG_STATISTIC_H
+
+#include "catalog/genbki.h"
+#include "catalog/pg_statistic_d.h"
+
+/* ----------------
+ * pg_statistic definition. cpp turns this into
+ * typedef struct FormData_pg_statistic
+ * ----------------
+ */
+CATALOG(pg_statistic,2619,StatisticRelationId)
+{
+ /* These fields form the unique key for the entry: */
+ Oid starelid BKI_LOOKUP(pg_class); /* relation containing
+ * attribute */
+ int16 staattnum; /* attribute (column) stats are for */
+ bool stainherit; /* true if inheritance children are included */
+
+ /* the fraction of the column's entries that are NULL: */
+ float4 stanullfrac;
+
+ /*
+ * stawidth is the average width in bytes of non-null entries. For
+ * fixed-width datatypes this is of course the same as the typlen, but for
+ * var-width types it is more useful. Note that this is the average width
+ * of the data as actually stored, post-TOASTing (eg, for a
+ * moved-out-of-line value, only the size of the pointer object is
+ * counted). This is the appropriate definition for the primary use of
+ * the statistic, which is to estimate sizes of in-memory hash tables of
+ * tuples.
+ */
+ int32 stawidth;
+
+ /* ----------------
+ * stadistinct indicates the (approximate) number of distinct non-null
+ * data values in the column. The interpretation is:
+ * 0 unknown or not computed
+ * > 0 actual number of distinct values
+ * < 0 negative of multiplier for number of rows
+ * The special negative case allows us to cope with columns that are
+ * unique (stadistinct = -1) or nearly so (for example, a column in which
+ * non-null values appear about twice on the average could be represented
+ * by stadistinct = -0.5 if there are no nulls, or -0.4 if 20% of the
+ * column is nulls). Because the number-of-rows statistic in pg_class may
+ * be updated more frequently than pg_statistic is, it's important to be
+ * able to describe such situations as a multiple of the number of rows,
+ * rather than a fixed number of distinct values. But in other cases a
+ * fixed number is correct (eg, a boolean column).
+ * ----------------
+ */
+ float4 stadistinct;
+
+ /* ----------------
+ * To allow keeping statistics on different kinds of datatypes,
+ * we do not hard-wire any particular meaning for the remaining
+ * statistical fields. Instead, we provide several "slots" in which
+ * statistical data can be placed. Each slot includes:
+ * kind integer code identifying kind of data (see below)
+ * op OID of associated operator, if needed
+ * coll OID of relevant collation, or 0 if none
+ * numbers float4 array (for statistical values)
+ * values anyarray (for representations of data values)
+ * The ID, operator, and collation fields are never NULL; they are zeroes
+ * in an unused slot. The numbers and values fields are NULL in an
+ * unused slot, and might also be NULL in a used slot if the slot kind
+ * has no need for one or the other.
+ * ----------------
+ */
+
+ int16 stakind1;
+ int16 stakind2;
+ int16 stakind3;
+ int16 stakind4;
+ int16 stakind5;
+
+ Oid staop1 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_operator);
+ Oid staop2 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_operator);
+ Oid staop3 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_operator);
+ Oid staop4 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_operator);
+ Oid staop5 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_operator);
+
+ Oid stacoll1 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_collation);
+ Oid stacoll2 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_collation);
+ Oid stacoll3 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_collation);
+ Oid stacoll4 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_collation);
+ Oid stacoll5 BKI_LOOKUP_OPT(pg_collation);
+
+#ifdef CATALOG_VARLEN /* variable-length fields start here */
+ float4 stanumbers1[1];
+ float4 stanumbers2[1];
+ float4 stanumbers3[1];
+ float4 stanumbers4[1];
+ float4 stanumbers5[1];
+
+ /*
+ * Values in these arrays are values of the column's data type, or of some
+ * related type such as an array element type. We presently have to cheat
+ * quite a bit to allow polymorphic arrays of this kind, but perhaps
+ * someday it'll be a less bogus facility.
+ */
+ anyarray stavalues1;
+ anyarray stavalues2;
+ anyarray stavalues3;
+ anyarray stavalues4;
+ anyarray stavalues5;
+#endif
+} FormData_pg_statistic;
+
+#define STATISTIC_NUM_SLOTS 5
+
+
+/* ----------------
+ * Form_pg_statistic corresponds to a pointer to a tuple with
+ * the format of pg_statistic relation.
+ * ----------------
+ */
+typedef FormData_pg_statistic *Form_pg_statistic;
+
+DECLARE_TOAST(pg_statistic, 2840, 2841);
+
+DECLARE_UNIQUE_INDEX_PKEY(pg_statistic_relid_att_inh_index, 2696, on pg_statistic using btree(starelid oid_ops, staattnum int2_ops, stainherit bool_ops));
+#define StatisticRelidAttnumInhIndexId 2696
+
+DECLARE_FOREIGN_KEY((starelid, staattnum), pg_attribute, (attrelid, attnum));
+
+#ifdef EXPOSE_TO_CLIENT_CODE
+
+/*
+ * Several statistical slot "kinds" are defined by core PostgreSQL, as
+ * documented below. Also, custom data types can define their own "kind"
+ * codes by mutual agreement between a custom typanalyze routine and the
+ * selectivity estimation functions of the type's operators.
+ *
+ * Code reading the pg_statistic relation should not assume that a particular
+ * data "kind" will appear in any particular slot. Instead, search the
+ * stakind fields to see if the desired data is available. (The standard
+ * function get_attstatsslot() may be used for this.)
+ */
+
+/*
+ * The present allocation of "kind" codes is:
+ *
+ * 1-99: reserved for assignment by the core PostgreSQL project
+ * (values in this range will be documented in this file)
+ * 100-199: reserved for assignment by the PostGIS project
+ * (values to be documented in PostGIS documentation)
+ * 200-299: reserved for assignment by the ESRI ST_Geometry project
+ * (values to be documented in ESRI ST_Geometry documentation)
+ * 300-9999: reserved for future public assignments
+ *
+ * For private use you may choose a "kind" code at random in the range
+ * 10000-30000. However, for code that is to be widely disseminated it is
+ * better to obtain a publicly defined "kind" code by request from the
+ * PostgreSQL Global Development Group.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * In a "most common values" slot, staop is the OID of the "=" operator
+ * used to decide whether values are the same or not, and stacoll is the
+ * collation used (same as column's collation). stavalues contains
+ * the K most common non-null values appearing in the column, and stanumbers
+ * contains their frequencies (fractions of total row count). The values
+ * shall be ordered in decreasing frequency. Note that since the arrays are
+ * variable-size, K may be chosen by the statistics collector. Values should
+ * not appear in MCV unless they have been observed to occur more than once;
+ * a unique column will have no MCV slot.
+ */
+#define STATISTIC_KIND_MCV 1
+
+/*
+ * A "histogram" slot describes the distribution of scalar data. staop is
+ * the OID of the "<" operator that describes the sort ordering, and stacoll
+ * is the relevant collation. (In theory more than one histogram could appear,
+ * if a datatype has more than one useful sort operator or we care about more
+ * than one collation. Currently the collation will always be that of the
+ * underlying column.) stavalues contains M (>=2) non-null values that
+ * divide the non-null column data values into M-1 bins of approximately equal
+ * population. The first stavalues item is the MIN and the last is the MAX.
+ * stanumbers is not used and should be NULL. IMPORTANT POINT: if an MCV
+ * slot is also provided, then the histogram describes the data distribution
+ * *after removing the values listed in MCV* (thus, it's a "compressed
+ * histogram" in the technical parlance). This allows a more accurate
+ * representation of the distribution of a column with some very-common
+ * values. In a column with only a few distinct values, it's possible that
+ * the MCV list describes the entire data population; in this case the
+ * histogram reduces to empty and should be omitted.
+ */
+#define STATISTIC_KIND_HISTOGRAM 2
+
+/*
+ * A "correlation" slot describes the correlation between the physical order
+ * of table tuples and the ordering of data values of this column, as seen
+ * by the "<" operator identified by staop with the collation identified by
+ * stacoll. (As with the histogram, more than one entry could theoretically
+ * appear.) stavalues is not used and should be NULL. stanumbers contains
+ * a single entry, the correlation coefficient between the sequence of data
+ * values and the sequence of their actual tuple positions. The coefficient
+ * ranges from +1 to -1.
+ */
+#define STATISTIC_KIND_CORRELATION 3
+
+/*
+ * A "most common elements" slot is similar to a "most common values" slot,
+ * except that it stores the most common non-null *elements* of the column
+ * values. This is useful when the column datatype is an array or some other
+ * type with identifiable elements (for instance, tsvector). staop contains
+ * the equality operator appropriate to the element type, and stacoll
+ * contains the collation to use with it. stavalues contains
+ * the most common element values, and stanumbers their frequencies. Unlike
+ * MCV slots, frequencies are measured as the fraction of non-null rows the
+ * element value appears in, not the frequency of all rows. Also unlike
+ * MCV slots, the values are sorted into the element type's default order
+ * (to support binary search for a particular value). Since this puts the
+ * minimum and maximum frequencies at unpredictable spots in stanumbers,
+ * there are two extra members of stanumbers, holding copies of the minimum
+ * and maximum frequencies. Optionally, there can be a third extra member,
+ * which holds the frequency of null elements (expressed in the same terms:
+ * the fraction of non-null rows that contain at least one null element). If
+ * this member is omitted, the column is presumed to contain no null elements.
+ *
+ * Note: in current usage for tsvector columns, the stavalues elements are of
+ * type text, even though their representation within tsvector is not
+ * exactly text.
+ */
+#define STATISTIC_KIND_MCELEM 4
+
+/*
+ * A "distinct elements count histogram" slot describes the distribution of
+ * the number of distinct element values present in each row of an array-type
+ * column. Only non-null rows are considered, and only non-null elements.
+ * staop contains the equality operator appropriate to the element type,
+ * and stacoll contains the collation to use with it.
+ * stavalues is not used and should be NULL. The last member of stanumbers is
+ * the average count of distinct element values over all non-null rows. The
+ * preceding M (>=2) members form a histogram that divides the population of
+ * distinct-elements counts into M-1 bins of approximately equal population.
+ * The first of these is the minimum observed count, and the last the maximum.
+ */
+#define STATISTIC_KIND_DECHIST 5
+
+/*
+ * A "length histogram" slot describes the distribution of range lengths in
+ * rows of a range-type column. stanumbers contains a single entry, the
+ * fraction of empty ranges. stavalues is a histogram of non-empty lengths, in
+ * a format similar to STATISTIC_KIND_HISTOGRAM: it contains M (>=2) range
+ * values that divide the column data values into M-1 bins of approximately
+ * equal population. The lengths are stored as float8s, as measured by the
+ * range type's subdiff function. Only non-null rows are considered.
+ */
+#define STATISTIC_KIND_RANGE_LENGTH_HISTOGRAM 6
+
+/*
+ * A "bounds histogram" slot is similar to STATISTIC_KIND_HISTOGRAM, but for
+ * a range-type column. stavalues contains M (>=2) range values that divide
+ * the column data values into M-1 bins of approximately equal population.
+ * Unlike a regular scalar histogram, this is actually two histograms combined
+ * into a single array, with the lower bounds of each value forming a
+ * histogram of lower bounds, and the upper bounds a histogram of upper
+ * bounds. Only non-NULL, non-empty ranges are included.
+ */
+#define STATISTIC_KIND_BOUNDS_HISTOGRAM 7
+
+#endif /* EXPOSE_TO_CLIENT_CODE */
+
+#endif /* PG_STATISTIC_H */