Tomas Vondra wrote: > 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.
+1. I have other immediate commitments but I can push David's patch on Thursday. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
