Re: Statistics Import and Export

Hi,

On 2025-02-24 13:47:19 -0500, Corey Huinker wrote:
> and the "restore" family has the following properties:
> 
> 1. will inplace update pg_class to avoid table bloat

I suspect that this is a *really* bad idea. It's very very hard to get inplace
updates right. We have several unfixed correctness bugs that are related to
the use of inplace updates.  I really don't think it's wise to add additional
interfaces that can reach inplace updates unless there's really no other
alternative (like not being able to assign an xid in VACUUM to be able to deal
with anti-xid-wraparound-shutdown systems).

Greetings,

Andres Freund