Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> writes: > On the other hand, pg_dump relies on pg_statistic_ext to work out > which extended statistics objects to dump. If we were to change that > to use pg_stats_ext, then a user dumping a table with RLS using the > --enable-row-security flag wouldn't get any extended statistics > objects, which would be a somewhat surprising result.
It seems like what we need here is to have a separation between the *definition* of a stats object (which is what pg_dump needs access to) and the current actual *data* in it. I'd have expected that keeping those in separate catalogs would be the thing to do, though perhaps it's too late for that. regards, tom lane