SHOW STATISTICS

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CockroachDB v22.1 is no longer supported as of November 24, 2023. For more details, refer to the Release Support Policy.

The SHOW STATISTICS statement lists table statistics used by the cost-based optimizer.

By default, CockroachDB automatically generates statistics on all indexed columns and up to 100 non-indexed columns, and automatically collects multi-column statistics on the columns that prefix each index.

Synopsis

SHOW STATISTICS FOR TABLE table_name

Required Privileges

No privileges are required to list table statistics.

Parameters

Parameter Description
table_name The name of the table to view statistics for.

Output

Column Description
statistics_name The name of the statistics. If __auto__, the statistics were created automatically.
column_names The name of the columns on which the statistics were created.
created The timestamp when the statistics were created.
row_count The number of rows for which the statistics were computed.
distinct_count The number of distinct values for which the statistics were computed.
null_count The number of null values for which the statistics were computed.
avg_size New in v22.1: The average size in bytes of the values of the columns for which the statistics were computed.
histogram_id The ID of the histogram used to compute statistics.

Examples

Setup

The following examples use MovR, a fictional vehicle-sharing application, to demonstrate CockroachDB SQL statements. For more information about the MovR example application and dataset, see MovR: A Global Vehicle-sharing App.

To follow along, run cockroach demo to start a temporary, in-memory cluster with the movr dataset preloaded:

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$ cockroach demo

List table statistics

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> SHOW STATISTICS FOR TABLE rides;
  statistics_name |       column_names        |          created           | row_count | distinct_count | null_count | avg_size |    histogram_id
------------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+-----------+----------------+------------+----------+---------------------
  __auto__        | {city}                    | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |              9 |          0 |       12 | 755053982033936385
  __auto__        | {id}                      | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |            500 |          0 |       26 | 755053982039703553
  __auto__        | {city,id}                 | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |            500 |          0 |       37 |               NULL
  __auto__        | {rider_id}                | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |             50 |          0 |       17 | 755053982050910209
  __auto__        | {city,rider_id}           | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |             50 |          0 |       29 |               NULL
  __auto__        | {vehicle_city}            | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |              9 |          0 |       11 | 755053982061690881
  __auto__        | {vehicle_id}              | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |             15 |          0 |       17 | 755053982067392513
  __auto__        | {vehicle_city,vehicle_id} | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |             15 |          0 |       28 |               NULL
  __auto__        | {start_address}           | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |            500 |          0 |       25 | 755053982080991233
  __auto__        | {end_address}             | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |            500 |          0 |       25 | 755053982087544833
  __auto__        | {start_time}              | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |             30 |          0 |        7 | 755053982093443073
  __auto__        | {end_time}                | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |            367 |          0 |        7 | 755053982099472385
  __auto__        | {revenue}                 | 2022-04-20 22:43:08.851613 |       500 |            100 |          0 |        6 | 755053982105337857
(13 rows)

Delete statistics

To delete statistics for all tables in all databases:

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DELETE FROM system.table_statistics WHERE true;

To delete a named set of statistics (e.g, one named "users_stats"), run a query like the following:

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DELETE FROM system.table_statistics WHERE name = 'users_stats';

For more information about the DELETE statement, see DELETE.

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