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Subject: Re: pg_dump --with-* options
From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
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On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 09:12 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> But to do that, we'd either need to make pg_dump dump statistics
> by default, or allow redundant options like --statistics in
> pg_restore,
> even though it already restores statistics by default.

Redundant options might be annoying, but I don't see them as a major
problem.

> As I understand it, the rough consensus so far is that we'd prefer to
> avoid both of these approaches.

I'm not clear what the consensus approach is, then. Can you elaborate?

> I know some want to change the default
> behavior about statistics in pg_dump, though.

I don't see a consensus to make stats the default.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis