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From: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 14:45:25 -0600
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Subject: Re: Add starelid, attnum to pg_stats and leverage this in pg_dump
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>> I noticed that you changed the tests to selecting individual columns. I am
>> not clear as to why this is better?
>>
>> -SELECT *
>> +SELECT schemaname, tablename, attname, attnum, inherited, null_frac, avg_width,
>> +    n_distinct, most_common_vals, most_common_freqs, histogram_bounds,
>> +    correlation, most_common_elems, most_common_elem_freqs,
>> +    elem_count_histogram, range_length_histogram, range_empty_frac,
>> +    range_bounds_histogram

Makes sense.

BTW, I do not see a CF enty for this.

Thanks!

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Sami Imseih
Amazon Web Services (AWS)