Re: Add starelid, attnum to pg_stats and leverage this in pg_dump

From: Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add starelid, attnum to pg_stats and leverage this in pg_dump
Date: 2026-03-09 18:56:19
Message-ID: CAA5RZ0s674FM8vcEqr+DUVjWOpYSPS-rG8uANdJKEnSyo+tObA@mail.gmail.com
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>> nathan
>
>
> You're both right. Currently, we fetch extended stats one at a time, thus there's no _immediate_ need to do so.
>
> But "why wait until there is a crisis" is solid reasoning and for that I had already coded up the change.
>I did have one small problem in that Michael Paquier had hoped that we could get the expr index (-1, -2, etc) on the expressions
> as that was something that we at least briefly thought we'd need for importing expression statistics. However the existing query
> uses a SELECT unnest(a), unnest(b) pattern in it, and WITH ORDINALITY is not allowed, and the workarounds I found seemed a
> bit tortured. Hence, I decided to leave that out so as not to distract from the now accepted patch, and with that out of the way
> I'll happily inflict that tortured SQL on y'all.

Can we add the tableid for now (see 0003) and follow-up with another
thread with the sql changes to pg_dump?

I also corrected v2-0001. The docs were still referencing "starlid"
instead of "tableid"

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Sami Imseih
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Attachment Content-Type Size
v3-0002-pg_dump-Use-tableid-in-getAttributeStats.patch application/octet-stream 8.0 KB
v3-0003-Add-tableid-column-to-pg_stats_ext-and-pg_stats_e.patch application/octet-stream 4.9 KB
v3-0001-Add-tableid-and-attnum-columns-to-pg_stats.patch application/octet-stream 76.6 KB

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