Re: pg_migrator to /contrib in a later 9.0 beta

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera  writes:
> > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue may 06 11:19:27 -0400 2010:
> >> It seems copying over pg_statistic would require preservation of
> >> pg_class.oid.  Right now we only preserve pg_class.relfilenode.
> 
> > That could be fixed easily by creating a throwaway table which included the
> > qualified table name instead of the OID, and reloading it into pg_statistic
> > after the migration.
> 
> Yeah.  Casting to and from regclass would do the trick too.

I will add this idea to the pg_migrator TODO file.  I didn't bother with
this in the 8.3 -> 8.4 migration because we changed the default number
of statistics collected in 8.4.

This would be a 9.1 item.

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