I wrote: > I think what is happening is that the patch shut off CREATE > INDEX's update of not only the table's stats but also the > index's stats. This seems unhelpful: the index's empty > stats can never be what's wanted.
I looked at this more closely and realized that it's a simple matter of having made the tests in the wrong order. The whole stanza should only apply when dealing with the table, not the index. I verified that this change fixes the cross-version-upgrade failure in local testing, and pushed it. regards, tom lane