Re: Optional skipping of unchanged relations during ANALYZE?

On 2/13/26 1:14 PM, VASUKI M wrote:
> As discussed earlier in the thread, I plan to start a new discussion and 
> patch series for a separate ANALYZE (MODIFIED_STATS) option that would 
> reuse autoanalyze-style thresholds. I believe keeping MISSING_STATS_ONLY 
> and MODIFIED_STATS as separate, clearly defined options makes the 
> semantics easier to reason about.

When would a user ever want MODIFIED_STATS without also analyzing tables 
without any stats? I had more thought of calling it something like 
SKIP_UNMODIFIED but maybe there is a case for MISSING_STATS_ONLY, 
especially since the command line tool supports it.

Andreas