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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Subject: Re: Statistics Import and Export
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:44:13 -0400
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Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 2:41 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> There's a bigger issue though: AFAICS this patch set does nothing
>> about dumping extended statistics.  I surely don't want to hold up
>> the patch insisting that that has to happen before we can commit the
>> functionality proposed here.  But we cannot rip out pg_upgrade's
>> support for post-upgrade ANALYZE processing before we do something
>> about extended statistics, and that means it's premature to be
>> designing any changes to how that works.  So I'd set that whole
>> topic on the back burner.

> So Extended Stats _were_ supported by earlier versions where the medium of
> communication was JSON. However, there were several problems with adapting
> that to the current model where we match params to stat types:

> * Several of the column types do not have functional input functions, so we
> must construct the data structure internally and pass them to
> statext_store().
> * The output functions for some of those column types have lists of
> attnums, with negative values representing positional expressions in the
> stat definition. This information is not translatable to another system
> without also passing along the attnum/attname mapping of the source system.

I wonder if the right answer to that is "let's enhance the I/O
functions for those types".  But whether that helps or not, it's
v18-or-later material for sure.

> At least three people told me "nobody uses extended stats" and to just drop
> that from the initial version.

I can't quibble with that view of what has priority.  I'm just
suggesting that redesigning what pg_upgrade does in this area
should come later than doing something about extended stats.

			regards, tom lane





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