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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Georgios Kokolatos <gkokolatos@protonmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: v13: show extended stats target in \d
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 18:07:00 -0500
Message-ID: <20200909230700.GZ18552@telsasoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200909222230.GA30448@alvherre.pgsql>
References: <20200909213627.GW18552@telsasoft.com>
	<20200909222230.GA30448@alvherre.pgsql>

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 07:22:30PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Sep-09, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> 
> > As for the discussion about a separator, I think maybe a comma is enough.  I
> > doubt anyone is going to think that you can get a valid command by prefixing
> > this by "CREATE STATISTICS".  Actually, it didn't even occur to me it was valid
> > command without the stats target - after all, that's not true of indexes.
> 
> By the way, I got into this because of your comment in
> https://postgr.es/m/20200901011429.GZ5450@telsasoft.com on whether we
> needed CREATE STATISTICS to have a clause for this.

And I agree that it does not - the question was raised during development of
the feature, and nobody sees a need.  I asked since I didn't know and I didn't
want it to be missed for lack of asking.

-- 
Justin





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