release-22.2: opt: add setting to always use histograms to calculate stats #98230
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Backport 1/1 commits from #98194.
/cc @cockroachdb/release
Informs #64570
Release note (sql change): Added a new session setting,
optimizer_always_use_histograms
, which ensures that the optimizer always uses histograms when available to calculate the statistics of every plan that it explores. Enabling this setting can prevent the optimizer from choosing a suboptimal index when statistics for a table are stale.Release justification: low-risk stats improvement gated by a disabled session setting