Re: Import Statistics in postgres_fdw before resorting to sampling.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 3:45 PM Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 2:21 AM Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Changes in this release, aside from rebasing:
> >>
> >> - The generic analyze and fdw.h changes are in their own patch (0001) that ignores contrib/postgres_fdw entirely.
> >> - The option for remote_analyze has been moved to its own patch (0003).
> >> - The errors raised are now warnings, to ensure that we can always fall back to row sampling.
> >> - All local attributes with attstatarget > 0 must get matching remote statistics or the import is considered a failure.
> >> - The pg_restore_attribute_stats() call has been turned into a prepared statement, for clarity and some minor parsing savings.
> >> - The calls to pg_restore_relation_stats() are parameterized, but not prepared as this is rarely called more than once.
> >> - postgresStatisticsAreImportable will now disqualify a table if has extended statistics objects, because we can't compute those without a row sample.
> >

The patches fail to build the document. Attached diff fixes that.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat