On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 09:40:09PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote: > 1) If the table is a separate relation (not part of an inheritance > tree), this should make no difference. -> OK > > 2) If the table is using "old" inheritance, this reverts back to > pre-regression behavior. So people will keep using the old statistics > until the ANALYZE, and we need to tell them to ANALYZE or something. > > 3) If the table is using partitioning, it's guaranteed to be empty and > there are no stats at all. Again, we should tell people to run ANALYZE.
I think these can be mentioned in the commit message, which can end up in the minor release notes as a recommendation to rerun ANALYZE. Thanks for pushing 0001. -- Justin
