> > For a partitioned table this value has to be true. For a normal table when > setting this value to true, it should at least make sure that the table has > at least one child. Otherwise it should throw an error. Blindly accepting > the given value may render the statistics unusable. Prologue of the > function needs to be updated accordingly. >
I can see rejecting non-inherited stats for a partitioned table. The reverse, however, isn't true, because a table may end up being inherited by another, so those statistics may be legit. Having said that, a great deal of the data validation I was doing was seen as unnecessary, so I' not sure where this check would fall on that line. It's a trivial check if we do add it.
