vacuumdb: Add option for analyzing only relations missing stats.

Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>

Commit: 5f8eb25706b62923c53172e453c8a4dedd877a3d
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
Committer: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-03-07T03:17:35Z
Releases: 18.0
vacuumdb: Add option for analyzing only relations missing stats.

This commit adds a new --missing-only option that can be used in
conjunction with --analyze-only and --analyze-in-stages.  When this
option is specified, vacuumdb will generate ANALYZE commands for a
relation if it is missing any statistics it should ordinarily have.
For example, if a table has statistics for one column but not
another, we will analyze the whole table.  A similar principle
applies to extended statistics, expression indexes, and table
inheritance.

Co-authored-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: TODO
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z5O1bpcwDrMgyrYy%40nathan

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