Re: WITH clause in CREATE STATISTICS

On 5/3/17 11:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> On 05/03/2017 04:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>> One other point is that as long as we've got reserved keywords introducing
>>> each clause, there isn't actually an implementation reason why we couldn't
>>> accept the clauses in any order. Not sure I want to document it that way,
>>> but it might not be a bad thing if the grammar was forgiving about whether
>>> you write the USING or ON part first ...
>>
>> +1 for allowing arbitrary order of clauses. I would document it with the
>> USING clause at the end, and have that be what psql supports and pg_dump
>> produces. Since there are no WITH options now we should leave that out
>> until it's required.
>
> Ok, sounds good to me. Unless there are objections I'm going to have a
> shot at implementing this. Thanks for the discussion.
>

Works for me. Do you also plan to remove the parentheses for the USING
clause?

regards

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