Re: Statistics import and export: difference in statistics of materialized view dumped

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2025-03-11 at 10:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Are you doing the restore in parallel by any chance?  I had a todo
>> item to revisit the dependencies that pg_dump is creating for stats
>> items, because they looked wrong to me, ie inadequate to guarantee
>> correct restore order.

> It's creating a dependency on the relation and a boundary dependency on
> the postDataBound (unless it's an index, or an MV that got pushed to
> SECTION_POST_DATA).
> I suspect what we need here is a dependency on the MV *data*, because
> that's doing a heap swap, which resets the stats. Looking into it.

Right, that was what I was thinking, but hadn't had time to look in
detail.  The postDataBound dependency isn't real helpful here, we
could lose that if we had the data dependency.

			regards, tom lane