Re: list of extended statistics on psql

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tatsuro Yamada <tatsuro(dot)yamada(dot)tf(at)nttcom(dot)co(dot)jp>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: list of extended statistics on psql
Date: 2020-08-31 16:18:09
Message-ID: 20200831161809.GA31337@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Aug-31, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> I wonder if trying to list info about all stats from the statistics
> object in a single line is necessary. Maybe we should split the info
> into one line per statistics, so for example
>
> CREATE STATISTICS s (mcv, ndistinct, dependencies) ON ...
>
> would result in three lines in the \dX output. The statistics name would
> identify which lines belong together, but other than that the pieces are
> mostly independent.

Yeah, that's what I'm suggesting. I don't think we need to repeat the
name/definition for each line though.

It might be useful to know how does pspg show a single entry that's
split in three lines, though.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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