dbms_stats vs analyze for statistics

Doing a dbms_stats with method option of 'for all indexed columns size 254' with compute optin.

I notice that only indexed columns are getting column stats - as expected. Howver, if do an anaylze command instead, all columns get some sort of stats. For non-index columns, stats are apparently the min/max values for the column.

Anybody see a problem with only getting column stats for the indexed columns as dbms_stats is giving me.

Jeffrey Beckstrom
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