Re: vacuumdb changes for stats import/export

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 06:30:59PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:

> > IIUC correctly, pg_statistic doesn't store stats on itself, so this
> > causes the query result to always contain pg_statistic -- does that
> > get removed elsewhere?
>
> Good catch.  I think the current behavior is to call ANALYZE on
> pg_statistic, too, but that should be mostly harmless (analyze_rel()
> refuses to process it).  I suppose we could try to avoid returning
> pg_statistic from the catalog query, but we don't bother doing that for any
> other vacuumdb modes, so I'm tempted to leave it alone.

Okay, thanks for confirming. I have no further comments.

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John Naylor
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