On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Mumble. It's a property I'm pretty hesitant to give up, especially >>> since the stats views have worked like that since day one. It's >>> inevitable that weakening that guarantee would break peoples' queries, >>> probably subtly. > >> You mean, queries against the stats views, or queries in general? If >> the latter, by what mechanism would the breakage happen? > > Queries against the stats views, of course.
There has been much discussion on this thread, and the set of patches as presented may hurt performance for users with a large number of tables, so I am marking it as returned with feedback. -- Michael