On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 16:13, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> writes: > > On the other hand, pg_dump relies on pg_statistic_ext to work out > > which extended statistics objects to dump. If we were to change that > > to use pg_stats_ext, then a user dumping a table with RLS using the > > --enable-row-security flag wouldn't get any extended statistics > > objects, which would be a somewhat surprising result. > > It seems like what we need here is to have a separation between the > *definition* of a stats object (which is what pg_dump needs access > to) and the current actual *data* in it. I'd have expected that > keeping those in separate catalogs would be the thing to do, though > perhaps it's too late for that. >
Yeah, with the benefit of hindsight, that would have made sense, but that seems like a pretty big change to be attempting at this stage. Regards, Dean
