Re: inherit support for foreign tables

Noah Misch wrote:

> I'm anticipating a bug report along these lines:
> 
>   I saw poor estimates involving a child foreign table, so I ran "ANALYZE
>   VERBOSE", which reported 'INFO:  analyzing "public.parent" inheritance
>   tree'.  Estimates remained poor, so I scratched my head for awhile before
>   noticing that pg_stats didn't report such statistics.  I then ran "ANALYZE
>   VERBOSE parent", saw the same 'INFO:  analyzing "public.parent" inheritance
>   tree', but this time saw relevant rows in pg_stats.  The message doesn't
>   reflect the actual behavior.
> 
> I'll sympathize with that complaint.

Agreed on that.

> A credible alternative is to emit a second message indicating that we
> skipped the inheritance tree statistics after all, and why we skipped
> them.

That'd be similar to Xorg emitting messages such as

[    53.772] (II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
[    53.800] (--) RandR disabled

I find this very poor.

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