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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Subject: CREATE STATISTICS and partitoins/inheritance
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In looking at CREATE STATISTICS, I was confused how inheritance and
partisions were handled, so I confirmed with Tomas that the ANALYZE
manual page accurately describes how extended statistics are handled
since PG 15, so I plan to apply this patch to the CREATE STATISTICS
docs.

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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
index b847944f37..2a9a0bf932 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
@@ -146,7 +146,9 @@ CREATE STATISTICS [ [ IF NOT EXISTS ] <replaceable class="parameter">statistics_
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table containing the
-      column(s) the statistics are computed on.
+      column(s) the statistics are computed on;  see <xref
+      linkend="sql-analyze"> for an explanation of the handling of
+      inheritance and partitions.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

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