Re: Statistics Import and Export

From: Hari Krishna Sunder <hari(dot)db(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Statistics Import and Export
Date: 2025-05-19 21:13:45
Message-ID: CAAeiqZ38ALsGyDF--qdoDC6wPGfbeOGioZO0EWVH8uJMeHDHAg@mail.gmail.com
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Sorry didn't know about the conference.

I think it would be better to revert 9879105 since there can be a
considerable number of true empty tables that we don’t need to process.

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Hari Krishna Sunder

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 01:30:48PM -0700, Hari Krishna Sunder wrote:
> > Here is the patch with a comment.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com
> >
> > wrote:
> >> There was a similar report for vacuumdb's new --missing-stats-only
> option.
> >> We fixed that in commit 9879105 by removing the check for reltuples !=
> 0,
> >> which means that --missing-stats-only will process empty tables.
>
> I'm wondering if we should revert commit 9879105 if we take this change,
> which solves the --missing-stats-only problem in a different way. My
> current thinking is that we should just leave it in place, if for no other
> reason than analyzing some empty tables seems unlikely to cause too much
> trouble. Thoughts?
>
> --
> nathan
>

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