correct behavior of ANALYZE ...

i came across some interesting behavior of pg_stats and i am not sure
if this is something we should treat the way we do it.
consider:

test_hans=# select * from pg_stats where attname = 'id' and tablename
= 't_testhugo';
schemaname | tablename | attname | null_frac | avg_width |
n_distinct | most_common_vals |
most_common_freqs | histogram_bounds
| correlation
------------+------------+---------+-----------+-----------
+------------+---------------------
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+------------------------------+-------------
public | t_testhugo | id | 0 | 8 |
15 | {18,17,16,19,20,15} |
{0.203333,0.186333,0.155333,0.148667,0.0953333,0.0903333} |
{11,13,14,14,14,21,21,22,25} | 0.557774
(1 row)

test_hans=# alter TABLE t_testhugo alter column id set statistics 2;
ALTER TABLE
test_hans=# ANALYZE t_testhugo ;
ANALYZE

test_hans=# select * from pg_stats where attname = 'id' and tablename
= 't_testhugo';
schemaname | tablename | attname | null_frac | avg_width |
n_distinct | most_common_vals | most_common_freqs | histogram_bounds
| correlation
------------+------------+---------+-----------+-----------
+------------+------------------+-------------------
+------------------+-------------
public | t_testhugo | id | 0 | 8 |
12 | {18,17} | {0.21,0.19} | {12,19,23} |
0.597255
(1 row)

test_hans=# alter TABLE t_testhugo alter column id set statistics 0;
ALTER TABLE

i expected the histogram to be gone her and stats should be disabled.
instead, we keep the old histogram here.

test_hans=# ANALYZE t_testhugo ;
ANALYZE
test_hans=# select * from pg_stats where attname = 'id' and tablename
= 't_testhugo';
schemaname | tablename | attname | null_frac | avg_width |
n_distinct | most_common_vals | most_common_freqs | histogram_bounds
| correlation
------------+------------+---------+-----------+-----------
+------------+------------------+-------------------
+------------------+-------------
public | t_testhugo | id | 0 | 8 |
12 | {18,17} | {0.21,0.19} | {12,19,23} |
0.597255
(1 row)

is that what we expect?
if no, i will go and fit it ...

hans

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