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Re: Statistics Import and Export

Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>

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From: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2024-03-18T18:25:40Z
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  1. Change pg_dump default for statistics export.

  2. pg_dump: Adjust reltuples from 0 to -1 for dumps of older versions.

  3. vacuumdb: Don't skip empty relations in --missing-stats-only mode.

  4. pg_dump: Fix query for gathering attribute stats on older versions.

  5. Prevent redeclaration of typedef TocEntry.

  6. Remove unused function parameters in pg_backup_archiver.c.

  7. pg_dump: Retrieve attribute statistics in batches.

  8. pg_dump: Reduce memory usage of dumps with statistics.

  9. Skip second WriteToc() call for custom-format dumps without data.

  10. Add relallfrozen to pg_dump statistics.

  11. Matview statistics depend on matview data.

  12. Add pg_dump --with-{schema|data|statistics} options.

  13. Stats: use schemaname/relname instead of regclass.

  14. CREATE INDEX: do update index stats if autovacuum=off.

  15. Don't convert to and from floats in pg_dump.

  16. CREATE INDEX: don't update table stats if autovacuum=off.

  17. Organize and deduplicate statistics import tests.

  18. Address stats export review comments.

  19. Address stats import review comments.

  20. Add relallfrozen to pg_class

  21. Fix pg_strtof() to not crash on NULL endptr.

  22. Use attnum to identify index columns in pg_restore_attribute_stats().

  23. pg_dump: prepare attribute stats query.

  24. Avoid unnecessary relation stats query in pg_dump.

  25. Remove redundant pg_set_*_stats() variants.

  26. Do not use in-place updates for statistics import.

  27. Fix confusion about data type of pg_class.relpages and relallvisible.

  28. Documentation fixups for dumping statistics.

  29. Trial fix for old cross-version upgrades.

  30. Transfer statistics during pg_upgrade.

  31. Lock table in ShareUpdateExclusive when importing index stats.

  32. Use in-place updates for pg_restore_relation_stats().

  33. Improve error message for replication of generated columns.

  34. pg_dump: Add dumpSchema and dumpData derivative flags.

  35. Disallow modifying statistics on system columns.

  36. Add missing CommandCounterIncrement() in stats import functions.

  37. Add functions pg_restore_relation_stats(), pg_restore_attribute_stats().

  38. Documentation fixup.

  39. Add functions pg_set_attribute_stats() and pg_clear_attribute_stats().

  40. Change pg_*_relation_stats() functions to return type to void.

  41. Disable autovacuum for tables in stats import tests.

  42. Allow pg_set_relation_stats() to set relpages to -1.

  43. Fixup for pg_set_relation_stats().

  44. Create functions pg_set_relation_stats, pg_clear_relation_stats.

  45. Add memory/disk usage for Window aggregate nodes in EXPLAIN.

  46. Improve performance of dumpSequenceData().

  47. Add INJECTION_POINT_CACHED() to run injection points directly from cache

  48. Improve performance of binary_upgrade_set_pg_class_oids().

  49. Improve assertion in mdwritev()

  50. CREATE INDEX: do not update stats during binary upgrade.

  51. Redefine pg_class.reltuples to be -1 before the first VACUUM or ANALYZE.

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> From testrun/pg_dump/002_pg_dump/log/regress_log_002_pg_dump, search
> for the "not ok" and then look at what it tried to do right before
> that. I see:
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> pg_dump: error: prepared statement failed: ERROR:  syntax error at or
> near "%"
> LINE 1: ..._histogram => %L::real[]) coalesce($2, format('%I.%I',
> a.nsp...
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Thanks. Unfamiliar turf for me.


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> > All those changes are available in the patches attached.
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> How about if you provided "get" versions of the functions that return a
> set of rows that match what the "set" versions expect? That would make
> 0001 essentially a complete feature itself.
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That's tricky. At the base level, those functions would just be an
encapsulation of "SELECT * FROM pg_stats WHERE schemaname = $1 AND
tablename = $2" which isn't all that much of a savings. Perhaps we can make
the documentation more explicit about the source and nature of the
parameters going into the pg_set_ functions.

Per conversation, it would be trivial to add a helper functions that
replace the parameters after the initial oid with a pg_class rowtype, and
that would dissect the values needed and call the more complex function:

pg_set_relation_stats( oid, pg_class)
pg_set_attribute_stats( oid, pg_stats)


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> I think it would also make the changes in pg_dump simpler, and the
> tests in 0001 a lot simpler.
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I agree. The tests are currently showing that a fidelity copy can be made
from one table to another, but to do so we have to conceal the actual stats
values because those are 1. not deterministic/known and 2. subject to
change from version to version.

I can add some sets to arbitrary values like was done for
pg_set_relation_stats().