Re: pg_dump --with-* options

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM Nathan Bossart
<nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 01:38:10PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I had thought we had a consensus that pg_upgrade should preserve stats
> > but regularly pg_dump shouldn't include them; perhaps I misunderstood
> > or that changed.
>
> I think it's a bit of both. I skimmed through the past discussions and
> found that not only was there a rough consensus in 2024 that stats _should_
> be on by default [0], but also that an updated vote tally didn't show much
> of a consensus at all [1]. Like you, I thought we had pretty much closed
> that door, but the aforementioned analysis along with further discussion
> has me convinced that we might want to reconsider [2].

Well, I don't know: I still think that's the right answer, so I don't
really want to reconsider, but I understand that I'm not in charge
here.

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Robert Haas
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