| Type: | integer |
| Default: | 100 |
| Min: | 1 |
| Max: | 10000 |
| Context: | user |
| Restart: | false |
Sets the default statistics target for table columns without a column-specific target set via ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS. Larger values increase the time needed to do ANALYZE, but might improve the quality of the planner's estimates. The default is 100. For more information on the use of statistics by the PostgreSQL query planner, refer to planner-stats.
Recommendations
Most applications can use the default of 100. For very small/simple databases, decrease to 10 or 50. Data warehousing applications generally need to use 500 to 1000. Otherwise, increase statistics targets on a per-column basis.