--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Tetram Corp <dev@...> wrote:

>
> considering your answer, is it correct to say that SET STATISTICS
> requests are now useless?
>

No, that is incorrect. You are making some incorrect assumptions. The
statistics don't tell you anything about how well balanced an index
is. They are rather used by the optimiser to determine the best plan
to solve a given query.

Adam