Re: v13: show extended stats target in \d

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 07:22:30PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Sep-09, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> > As for the discussion about a separator, I think maybe a comma is enough. I
> > doubt anyone is going to think that you can get a valid command by prefixing
> > this by "CREATE STATISTICS". Actually, it didn't even occur to me it was valid
> > command without the stats target - after all, that's not true of indexes.
>
> By the way, I got into this because of your comment in
> https://postgr.es/m/20200901011429.GZ5450@telsasoft.com on whether we
> needed CREATE STATISTICS to have a clause for this.

And I agree that it does not - the question was raised during development of
the feature, and nobody sees a need. I asked since I didn't know and I didn't
want it to be missed for lack of asking.

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Justin