Re: Statistics Import and Export

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Statistics Import and Export
Date: 2024-04-22 17:56:54
Message-ID: 0943da4616837682c65e4620050b8b1e86fe3503.camel@j-davis.com
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On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 11:50 -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> It looks like the problem is that the ACLs are getting dumped in the
> data
> section when we are also dumping stats.  I'm able to get the tests to
> pass
> by moving the call to dumpRelationStats() that's in dumpTableSchema()
> to
> dumpTableData().  I'm not entirely sure why that fixes it yet, but if
> we're
> treating stats as data, then it intuitively makes sense for us to
> dump it
> in dumpTableData().

Would it make sense to have a new SECTION_STATS?

> However, that seems to prevent the stats from getting
> exported in the --schema-only/--binary-upgrade scenario, which
> presents a
> problem for pg_upgrade.  ISTM we'll need some extra hacks to get this
> to
> work as desired.

Philosophically, I suppose stats are data, but I still don't understand
why considering stats to be data is so important in pg_dump.

Practically, I want to dump stats XOR data. That's because, if I dump
the data, it's so costly to reload and rebuild indexes that it's not
very important to avoid a re-ANALYZE.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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