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> Thanks. I think this may be used with postgres_fdw to import
> statistics directly from the foreigns server, whenever possible,
> rather than fetching the rows and building it locally. If it's known
> that the stats on foreign and local servers match for a foreign table,
> we will be one step closer to accurately estimating the cost of a
> foreign plan locally rather than through EXPLAIN.
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Yeah, that use makes sense as well, and if so then postgres_fdw would
likely need to be aware of the appropriate query for several versions back
- they change, not by much, but they do change. So now we'd have each query
text in three places: a system view, postgres_fdw, and the bin/scripts
pre-upgrade program. So I probably should consider the best way to share
those in the codebase.
