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Ignore table-wide NULL ratio for partial indexes where NULL is excluded #17

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@rafbm rafbm commented Nov 11, 2020

Technically speaking, this now ignores pg_stats.null_frac for indexed column x when index definition has WHERE x IS NOT NULL.

This can fix some very skewed bloat estimates, for instance on a table with many million rows that indexes a column where only a few thousands rows are non-NULL.

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