Re: preserving statistics settings

nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway) writes:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:28:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Not sure why I didn't think of this before, but we could make the stored
>> value of attstattarget be "-1" to indicate "use the default".  Zero or a
>> positive value then indicates an explicit selection.  We can't
>> retroactively fix 7.2, but going forward we'd have a reasonable answer.

> Sounds good to me. I can implement this, unless you'd rather do it.

Go for it.  Note you should be able to remove genbki.sh's knowledge of
DEFAULT_ATTSTATTARGET, as well as all the occurrences of that symbol
in include/catalog/*.h.  Offhand I guess only analyze.c should refer
to that symbol once it's done right.
        regards, tom lane