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From: Corey Huinker <[email protected]>
To: Sami Imseih <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Add starelid, attnum to pg_stats and leverage this in pg_dump
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 15:40:16 -0500
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>
> >> "pg_stats.relation" with a description of "Name of table or index" is
> >> more appropriate.
> >> It is a change that we can possibly make in a major version. Looked
> >> through the archives,
> >> and did not see this being reported/discussed.
> >
> >
> > I don't see it changing in any version, minor or major.
>
> This could be a separate discussion as it's not the fault of this patch,
> but clearly "tablename" is not correct here.
>

Certainly up for debate, but changing it would break existing scripts, and
that's generally a non-starter around here.


> 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
>

Well, the oid is now a part of the view, and that's not stable from one
regression run to the next, so we have to exclude it.


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