MDEV-31067: selectivity_from_histogram >1.0 for a DOUBLE_PREC_HB histogram
Variant #2. When Histogram::point_selectivity() sees that the point value of interest falls into one bucket, it tries to guess whether the bucket has many different (unpopular) values or a few popular values. (The number of rows is fixed, as it's a Height-balanced histogram). The basis for this guess is the "width" of the value range the bucket covers. Buckets covering wider value ranges are assumed to contain values with proportionally lower frequencies. This is just a [brave] guesswork. For a very narrow bucket, it may produce an estimate that's larger than total #rows in the bucket or even in the whole table. Remove the guesswork and replace it with basic logic: return either the per-table average selectivity of col=const, or selectivity of one bucket, whichever is lower.
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