Tom Lane wrote: > Have you thought further about the upthread suggestion to just borrow > SELECT's syntax lock stock and barrel? That is, it'd look something > like > > CREATE STATISTICS name [(list of stats types)] expression-list FROM ... > [ WHERE ... ] [ WITH (options) ] > > This would certainly support any FROM stuff we might want later. > Yeah, you'd need to reject any features you weren't supporting at > execution, but doing that would allow issuing a friendlier message than > "syntax error" anyway.
Hmm, no, I hadn't looked at this angle. > If you don't have the cycles for that, I'd be willing to look into it. I'll give it a try today, and pass the baton if I'm unable to. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
