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Subject: Re: Statistics Import and Export
From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:53:29 -0800
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On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 11:22 -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
> +1, this has been annoying me while testing.

IIRC, originally someone had questioned the need for options that
expressed what was already the default, but I can't find it right now.
Regardless, now the need is clear enough.

> Could we, instead of having --with-$foo, just use --$foo?

That creates a conflict with the existing --schema option, which is a
namespace filter.

Another idea: we could use --definitions/--data/--statistics.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis