html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/365#issuecomment-1008163050,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/365,1008163050,IC_kwDOCGYnMM48F1jq,9599,2022-01-08T22:10:51Z,2022-01-08T22:10:51Z,OWNER,"Is there a downside to having a `sqlite_stat1` table if it has wildly incorrect statistics in it?

Imagine the following sequence of events:

- User imports a few records, creating the table, using `sqlite-utils insert`
- User runs `sqlite-utils create-index ...` which also creates and populates the `sqlite_stat1` table
- User runs `insert` again to populate several million new records

The user now has a database file with several million records and a statistics table that is wildly out of date, having been populated when they only had a few.

Will this result in surprisingly bad query performance compared to it that statistics table did not exist at all?

If so, I lean much harder towards `ANALYZE` as a strictly opt-in optimization, maybe with the `--analyze` option added to `sqlite-utils insert` top to help users opt in to updating their statistics after running big inserts.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1096558279,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/365#issuecomment-1008158357,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/365,1008158357,IC_kwDOCGYnMM48F0aV,9599,2022-01-08T21:33:07Z,2022-01-08T21:33:07Z,OWNER,"The one thing that worries me a little bit about doing this by default is that it adds a surprising new table to the database - it may be confusing to users if they run `create-index` and their database suddenly has a new `sqlite_stat1` table, see https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/366#issuecomment-1008157132

Options here are:

- Do it anyway. People can tolerate a surprise table appearing when they create an index.
- Only run `ANALYZE` if the user says `sqlite-utils create-index ... --analyze`
- Use the `--analyze` option, but also automatically run `ANALYZE` if they create an index and the database they are working with already has a `sqlite_stat1` table

I'm currently leading towards that third option - @fgregg any thoughts?","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1096558279,