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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>54.27. pg_stats</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="view-pg-shmem-allocations.html" title="54.26. pg_shmem_allocations" /><link rel="next" href="view-pg-stats-ext.html" title="54.28. pg_stats_ext" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">54.27. <code class="structname">pg_stats</code></th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="view-pg-shmem-allocations.html" title="54.26. pg_shmem_allocations">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="views.html" title="Chapter 54. System Views">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 54. System Views</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.5 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="view-pg-stats-ext.html" title="54.28. pg_stats_ext">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" id="VIEW-PG-STATS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">54.27. <code class="structname">pg_stats</code></h2></div></div></div><a id="id-1.10.5.31.2" class="indexterm"></a><p>
+   The view <code class="structname">pg_stats</code> provides access to
+   the information stored in the <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-statistic.html" title="53.51. pg_statistic"><code class="structname">pg_statistic</code></a>
+   catalog.  This view allows access only to rows of
+   <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-statistic.html" title="53.51. pg_statistic"><code class="structname">pg_statistic</code></a> that correspond to tables the
+   user has permission to read, and therefore it is safe to allow public
+   read access to this view.
+  </p><p>
+   <code class="structname">pg_stats</code> is also designed to present the
+   information in a more readable format than the underlying catalog
+   — at the cost that its schema must be extended whenever new slot types
+   are defined for <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-statistic.html" title="53.51. pg_statistic"><code class="structname">pg_statistic</code></a>.
+  </p><div class="table" id="id-1.10.5.31.5"><p class="title"><strong>Table 54.27. <code class="structname">pg_stats</code> Columns</strong></p><div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="pg_stats Columns" border="1"><colgroup><col /></colgroup><thead><tr><th class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       Column Type
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       Description
+      </p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">schemaname</code> <code class="type">name</code>
+       (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-namespace.html" title="53.32. pg_namespace"><code class="structname">pg_namespace</code></a>.<code class="structfield">nspname</code>)
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       Name of schema containing table
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">tablename</code> <code class="type">name</code>
+       (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-class.html" title="53.11. pg_class"><code class="structname">pg_class</code></a>.<code class="structfield">relname</code>)
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       Name of table
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">attname</code> <code class="type">name</code>
+       (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-attribute.html" title="53.7. pg_attribute"><code class="structname">pg_attribute</code></a>.<code class="structfield">attname</code>)
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       Name of column described by this row
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">inherited</code> <code class="type">bool</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       If true, this row includes values from child tables, not just the
+       values in the specified table
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">null_frac</code> <code class="type">float4</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       Fraction of column entries that are null
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">avg_width</code> <code class="type">int4</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       Average width in bytes of column's entries
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">n_distinct</code> <code class="type">float4</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       If greater than zero, the estimated number of distinct values in the
+       column.  If less than zero, the negative of the number of distinct
+       values divided by the number of rows.  (The negated form is used when
+       <code class="command">ANALYZE</code> believes that the number of distinct values is
+       likely to increase as the table grows; the positive form is used when
+       the column seems to have a fixed number of possible values.)  For
+       example, -1 indicates a unique column in which the number of distinct
+       values is the same as the number of rows.
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">most_common_vals</code> <code class="type">anyarray</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       A list of the most common values in the column. (Null if
+       no values seem to be more common than any others.)
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">most_common_freqs</code> <code class="type">float4[]</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       A list of the frequencies of the most common values,
+       i.e., number of occurrences of each divided by total number of rows.
+       (Null when <code class="structfield">most_common_vals</code> is.)
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">histogram_bounds</code> <code class="type">anyarray</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       A list of values that divide the column's values into groups of
+       approximately equal population.  The values in
+       <code class="structfield">most_common_vals</code>, if present, are omitted from this
+       histogram calculation.  (This column is null if the column data type
+       does not have a <code class="literal">&lt;</code> operator or if the
+       <code class="structfield">most_common_vals</code> list accounts for the entire
+       population.)
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">correlation</code> <code class="type">float4</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       Statistical correlation between physical row ordering and
+       logical ordering of the column values.  This ranges from -1 to +1.
+       When the value is near -1 or +1, an index scan on the column will
+       be estimated to be cheaper than when it is near zero, due to reduction
+       of random access to the disk.  (This column is null if the column data
+       type does not have a <code class="literal">&lt;</code> operator.)
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">most_common_elems</code> <code class="type">anyarray</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       A list of non-null element values most often appearing within values of
+       the column. (Null for scalar types.)
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">most_common_elem_freqs</code> <code class="type">float4[]</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       A list of the frequencies of the most common element values, i.e., the
+       fraction of rows containing at least one instance of the given value.
+       Two or three additional values follow the per-element frequencies;
+       these are the minimum and maximum of the preceding per-element
+       frequencies, and optionally the frequency of null elements.
+       (Null when <code class="structfield">most_common_elems</code> is.)
+      </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
+       <code class="structfield">elem_count_histogram</code> <code class="type">float4[]</code>
+      </p>
+      <p>
+       A histogram of the counts of distinct non-null element values within the
+       values of the column, followed by the average number of distinct
+       non-null elements.  (Null for scalar types.)
+      </p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break" /><p>
+   The maximum number of entries in the array fields can be controlled on a
+   column-by-column basis using the <a class="link" href="sql-altertable.html" title="ALTER TABLE"><code class="command">ALTER
+   TABLE SET STATISTICS</code></a>
+   command, or globally by setting the
+   <a class="xref" href="runtime-config-query.html#GUC-DEFAULT-STATISTICS-TARGET">default_statistics_target</a> run-time parameter.
+  </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="view-pg-shmem-allocations.html" title="54.26. pg_shmem_allocations">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="views.html" title="Chapter 54. System Views">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="view-pg-stats-ext.html" title="54.28. pg_stats_ext">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">54.26. <code class="structname">pg_shmem_allocations</code> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.5 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 54.28. <code class="structname">pg_stats_ext</code></td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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author	Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>	2024-05-04 12:17:33 +0000
committer	Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>	2024-05-04 12:17:33 +0000
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