Re: [HACKERS] pg_stats_ext view does not seem all that useful

On 04/10/2017 12:12 PM, David Rowley wrote:
> During my review and time spent working on the functional dependencies
> part of extended statistics I wondered what was the use for the
> pg_stats_ext view. I was unsure why the length of the serialised
> dependencies was useful.
>
> Perhaps we could improve the view, but I'm not all that sure what
> value it would add. Maybe we need to discuss this, but in the
> meantime, I've attached a patch which just removes the view completely
>

Yeah, let's get rid of the view. It was quite useful before introducing 
the custom data types (and implicit casts to text), because 
pg_statistic_ext would simply return the whole bytea value. But since 
then the view kinda lost the purpose and no one really noticed.

regards

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