Re: [GENERAL] select statement against pg_stats returns

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] select statement against pg_stats returns
Date: 2004-02-25 04:37:11
Message-ID: 403C2677.6050808@familyhealth.com.au
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> Why? You can reconstruct it with a simple "ANALYZE" command. Dumping
> and restoring would mean nailing down cross-version assumptions about
> what it contains, which doesn't seem real forward-looking...

I seem to recall that people like that kind of thing so that the dump is
really the current state of the database.

Also, I believe big db's like DB2 and Oracle do such a thing.

I just recall it being discussed some time ago...

Chris

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