Re: WITH clause in CREATE STATISTICS

On 04/21/2017 12:13 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Simon just pointed out that having the WITH clause appear in the middle
>> of the CREATE STATISTICS command looks odd; apparently somebody else
>> already complained on list about the same. Other commands put the WITH
>> clause at the end, so perhaps we should do likewise in the new command.
>
>> Here's a patch to implement that. I verified that if I change
>> qualified_name to qualified_name_list, bison does not complain about
>> conflicts, so this new syntax should support extension to multiple
>> relations without a problem.
>
> Yeah, WITH is fully reserved, so as long as the clause looks like
> WITH ( stuff... ) you're pretty much gonna be able to drop it
> wherever you want.
>
>> Discuss.
>
> +1 for WITH at the end; the existing syntax looks weird to me too.
>

-1 from me

I like the current syntax more, and WHERE ... WITH seems a bit weird to
me. But more importantly, one thing Dean probably considered when
proposing the current syntax was that we may add support for partial
statistics, pretty much like partial indexes. And we don't allow WITH at
the end (after WHERE) for indexes:

test=# create index on t (a) where a < 100 with (fillfactor=10);
ERROR: syntax error at or near "with"
LINE 1: create index on t (a) where a < 100 with (fillfactor=10);
^
test=# create index on t (a) with (fillfactor=10) where a < 100;

regards

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