Re: preserving statistics settings

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:39:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway) writes:
> > Shouldn't the effect of ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS be
> > recorded by pg_dump?

> One problem is that I didn't really want to enshrine the current
> default value in a bunch of pg_dump scripts, in case we decide it's
> too small.

Good point.

> If there were a reliable way to tell whether the attstattarget value had
> actually been set by the user, or was merely a default, it'd be easier
> to determine what pg_dump should do.

Hmmm... we could allow SET STATISTICS to take 'DEFAULT' easily enough
(and that might even be a good idea in any case), but you're right --
without a way for pg_dump to determine the default value and/or whether
the admin have explicitely changed the attstattarget for that column,
there's not much that can be done...

I suppose we could hard-code the current default value into pg_dump,
but that's pretty ugly.

Does anyone have a better suggestion?

Cheers,

Neil

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