Re: Statistics Import and Export

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 01:30:48PM -0700, Hari Krishna Sunder wrote:
> Here is the patch with a comment.

Thanks.

> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> There was a similar report for vacuumdb's new --missing-stats-only option.
>> We fixed that in commit 9879105 by removing the check for reltuples != 0,
>> which means that --missing-stats-only will process empty tables.

I'm wondering if we should revert commit 9879105 if we take this change,
which solves the --missing-stats-only problem in a different way.  My
current thinking is that we should just leave it in place, if for no other
reason than analyzing some empty tables seems unlikely to cause too much
trouble.  Thoughts?

-- 
nathan