Re: Make name optional in CREATE STATISTICS

On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 at 11:58, Matthias van de Meent
<boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 at 12:55, Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > There are various other ways of doing this and, yes, we could refactor
> > other parts of the grammar to make this work. There is a specific
> > guideline about patch submission that says the best way to get a patch
> > rejected is to include unnecessary changes. With that in mind, let's
> > keep the patch simple and exactly aimed at the original purpose.
> >
> > I'll leave it for committers to decide whether other refactoring is wanted.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> > I have made the comment show that the name is optional, thank you.
>
> The updated comment implies that IF NOT EXISTS is allowed without a
> defined name, which is false:
>
> > + *                CREATE STATISTICS [IF NOT EXISTS] [stats_name] [(stat types)]
>
> A more correct version would be
>
> + *                CREATE STATISTICS [ [IF NOT EXISTS] stats_name ]
> [(stat types)]

There you go

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