Re: Statistics Import and Export

From: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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Subject: Re: Statistics Import and Export
Date: 2025-02-26 09:25:29
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Just to confirm, we ARE able to assume dense packing of attributes in an
> > index, and thus we can infer the attnum from the position of the attname
> in
> > the aggregated array, and there's no need to do a parallel array_agg of
> > attnums, yes?
>
> Yes, absolutely, there are no dropped columns in indexes. See
> upthread discussion.
>
> We could have avoided two sub-selects for attstattarget too,
> on the same principle: just collect them all and sort it out
> later. That'd risk bloating pg_dump's storage, although maybe
> we could have handled that by doing additional processing
> while inspecting the results of getIndexes' query, so as not
> to store anything in the common case.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

0001 - Add attnum support to attribute_statistics_update

* Basically what Tom posted earlier, minus the pg_set_attribute_stats
stuff, obviously.

0002 - Add attnum support to pg_dump.

* Removed att_stats_arginfo
* Folds appendRelStatsImport and appendAttStatsImport
into dumpRelationStats

Attachment Content-Type Size
vViaDellaAttnums-0001-Add-ability-to-reference-columns-by.patch text/x-patch 7.2 KB
vViaDellaAttnums-0002-Dump-expression-index-stats-by-attn.patch text/x-patch 12.8 KB

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