In looking at CREATE STATISTICS, I was confused how inheritance and
partisions were handled, so I confirmed with Tomas that the ANALYZE
manual page accurately describes how extended statistics are handled
since PG 15, so I plan to apply this patch to the CREATE STATISTICS
docs.
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> https://momjian.us
EDB https://enterprisedb.com
Indecision is a decision. Inaction is an action. Mark Batterson
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
index b847944f37..2a9a0bf932 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
@@ -146,7 +146,9 @@ CREATE STATISTICS [ [ IF NOT EXISTS ] <replaceable class="parameter">statistics_
<listitem>
<para>
The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table containing the
- column(s) the statistics are computed on.
+ column(s) the statistics are computed on; see <xref
+ linkend="sql-analyze"> for an explanation of the handling of
+ inheritance and partitions.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
