Thirunarayanan Balathandayuthapani a7a933982d MDEV-19574 innodb_stats_method is not honored when innodb_stats_persistent=ON
Problem:
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 InnoDB persistent statistics doesn't take innodb_stats_method
variable while calculating n_diff_pfx for the n-prefix index
columns.

Solution:
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While calculating the persistent statistics, InnoDB consider all
NULLS as different value when innodb_stats_method is
set to NULLS_UNEQUAL or NULLS_IGNORED. InnoDB statistics depends
on the value of "innodb_stats_method" variable when the
statistics were last recalculated.

dict_stats_analyze_index_level(),
dict_stats_scan_page(),
dict_stats_analyze_index_below_cur(),
dict_stats_analyze_index_for_n_prefix(): All function accepts
the parameter to indicate the innodb_stats_method. It also
calculates the number of non-null key value for each level or leaf page

dict_stats_index_set_n_diff(): calculates the number of non-null
values similar to number of different key values.

Append the non-default innodb_stats_method variable name
for n_diff_pfx statistics description in mysql.innodb_index_stats.

IndexScanStatistics: Structure to store the various statistical
metric gathered during index scan fetch operation. This structure
is being used in dict_stats_analyze_index_level() to fetch the
statistics
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