Re: Statistics Import and Export

Yeah, but that problem exists no matter what.  I haven't read enough
of the patch to find where it's determining that, but I assume there's
code in there to intuit the statistics storage type depending on the
table column's data type and the statistics kind.

We could not trust the exporting side to tell us the correct answer;
for one reason, it might be different across different releases.
So "derive it reliably on the destination" is really the only option.

I think that it's impossible to do this in the general case, since
type-specific typanalyze functions can store pretty nearly whatever
they like.  However, the pg_stats view isn't going to show nonstandard
statistics kinds anyway, so we are going to be lossy for custom
statistics kinds.