Re: Statistics Import and Export

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 09:37 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I don't think I was aware of the open item; I was just catching up on
> > email.
>
> I lean towards making it opt-in for pg_dump and opt-out for pg_upgrade.

Big +1.

> But I think we should leave open the possibility for changing the
> default to opt-out for pg_dump in the future.

We can always decide to change things, but this is different from some
other cases. Sometimes we're waiting to enable a feature by default
until, say, we think it's stable. This case is more about user
expectations, which might not be so prone to changing over time (but
you never know).

> Mid-beta might be too long, but let's wait for the final CF to settle
> and give people the chance to respond to a top-level thread?

wfm, thanks.

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Robert Haas
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