Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:49:06AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 16:13, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>> It seems like what we need here is to have a separation between the
>>>> *definition* of a stats object (which is what pg_dump needs access
>>>> to) and the current actual *data* in it.
>> Otoh, having a suboptimal catalog representation that we'll likely have
>> to change in one of the next releases also isn't great. Seems likely
>> that we'll need post beta1 catversion bumps anyway?
> But that's not an issue intruduced by PG12, it works like that even for
> the extended statistics introduced in PG10.
Yeah, but no time like the present to fix it if it's wrong ...
regards, tom lane