Re: Statistics Import and Export

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Statistics Import and Export
Date: 2024-11-27 17:00:21
Message-ID: Z0dQJUYxSg4LVP-U@momjian.us
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 04:57:35PM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2024-Nov-27, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> There would be no default. Running with no option given would raise an
> error. The point is: you want to break scripts currently running
> --analyze-in-stages so that they can make a choice of which of these two
> modes to run. Your proposal (as I understand it) is to remove the
> --analyze-in-stages option and add two other options. My proposal is to
> keep --analyze-in-stages, but require it to have a specifier of which
> mode to run. Both achieve what you want, but I think mine achieves it
> in a cleaner way.
>
> > Uh, do we have parameters that require a boolean option like this?
>
> I'm not sure what exactly are you asking here.

I can't think of a Postgres option that can take only one of two
possible values, and where there is no default value.

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