Re: pg_restore handles extended statistics inconsistently with statistics data

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 07:15:51AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> That's the behavior since v15.  Contrary to you, the behavior of
> specifying a table in pg_dump and pg_restore but not including a stats
> definition makes more sense here.  The reasoning is that a stats
> object may live on a different schema than the table it is defined on,
> so you cannot guarantee that its schema has been created if you only
> create a table on a schema.

Sharing the check for a STATISTICS DATA TOC entry on table and index
names was making me ticking a bit, as this is not entirely
collision-proof for the names, but it also looks like we do things the
same way with TABLE DATA and INDEX, so..  At the end, applied down to
v18 as suggested.
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Michael