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release-22.2: opt: add setting to always use histograms to calculate stats #98230

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@rytaft rytaft commented Mar 8, 2023

Backport 1/1 commits from #98194.

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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

Informs cockroachdb#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.
@rytaft rytaft requested review from michae2 and DrewKimball March 8, 2023 17:12
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:lgtm:

Reviewed 10 of 10 files at r1, all commit messages.
Reviewable status: :shipit: complete! 1 of 0 LGTMs obtained (waiting on @michae2)

@rytaft rytaft merged commit 147621a into cockroachdb:release-22.2 Mar 8, 2023
@rytaft rytaft deleted the backport22.2-98194 branch March 8, 2023 19:00
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