Re: Make name optional in CREATE STATISTICS

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 18:42, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Thanks. I was looking at the recently modified REINDEX syntax and
> noticed there another spot for taking an optional name. I ended up
> reusing OptSchemaName for that, as in the attached patch. I think
> adding production-specific additional productions is pointless and
> probably bloats the grammar. So let me +1 your push of the patch you
> posted, just to keep things moving forward, but in addition I propose to
> later rename OptSchemaName to something more generic and use it in these
> three places.
>

OK, pushed.

Before writing opt_stats_name, I went looking for anything else I
could use, but didn't see anything. The difference between this and
the index case, is that statistics objects can be schema-qualified, so
it might be tricky to get something that'll work for all 3 places.

Regards,
Dean