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Re: PoC/WIP: Extended statistics on expressions

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-27T00:17:14Z
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On 3/26/21 1:54 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/26/21 12:37 PM, Dean Rasheed wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 19:59, Tomas Vondra
>> <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Attached is an updated patch series, with all the changes discussed
>>> here. I've cleaned up the ndistinct stuff a bit more (essentially
>>> reverting back from GroupExprInfo to GroupVarInfo name), and got rid of
>>> the UpdateStatisticsForTypeChange.
>>>
>>
>> I've looked over all that and I think it's in pretty good shape. I
>> particularly like how much simpler the ndistinct code has now become.
>>
>> Some (hopefully final) review comments:
>>
>> ...
>>
> 
> Thanks! I'll fix these, and then will consider getting it committed
> sometime later today, once the buildfarm does some testing on the other
> stuff I already committed.
> 

OK, pushed after a bit more polishing and testing. I've noticed one more
missing piece in describe (expressions missing in \dX), so I fixed that.

May the buildfarm be merciful ...


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. Disallow extended statistics on system columns

  2. Identify simple column references in extended statistics

  3. Don't print extra parens around expressions in extended stats

  4. Change position of field "transformed" in struct CreateStatsStmt.

  5. Add transformed flag to nodes/*funcs.c for CREATE STATISTICS

  6. Stabilize stats_ext test with other collations

  7. Extended statistics on expressions

  8. Reduce duration of stats_ext regression tests

  9. Allow composite types in catalog bootstrap

  10. Convert Typ from array to list in bootstrap

  11. Disallow CREATE STATISTICS on system catalogs