Re: Add starelid, attnum to pg_stats and leverage this in pg_dump
Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
From: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
To: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>,
pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-03-12T21:08:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Apologies for the delay. I thought I had posted this. I rebased it against a630ac5c2016e52 (current HEAD). Thanks! just a few things. v5-0001: +-- Set up convenience views +-- +CREATE VIEW stats_import.pg_stats_check AS It will be good to add more commentary here to the next person adding a test, and mention that only stable values should be included in this view. what do you think? v5-0002: This is the wrong link. It should be catalog-pg-attribute and not catalog-pg-class + (references <link linkend="catalog-pg-class"><structname>pg_attribute</structname></link>.<structfield>attrelid</structfield>) and a few occurrences where the link to pg_statistic_ext is pointing to catalog-pg-class: + (references <link linkend="catalog-pg-class"><structname>pg_statistic_ext</structname></link>.<structfield>stxrelid</structfield>) v5-0003: LGTM -- Sami Imseih Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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pg_dump: Simplify query for retrieving attribute statistics.
- 4b5ba0c4ca52 19 (unreleased) landed
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Add more columns to pg_stats, pg_stats_ext, and pg_stats_ext_exprs.
- 3b88e50d6c2e 19 (unreleased) landed
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Add convenience view to stats import test.
- 233bbdf031e4 19 (unreleased) landed