Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> writes:
> Sadly, that attnum isn't available in pg_stats, so we'd have to reintroduce
> the joins to pg_namespace and pg_class to get at pg_attribute, at least for
> indexes.
This argument seems to be made still from the mindset that you are
going to form a query that produces exactly what needs to be dumped,
without any additional processing. pg_dump has all that info at
hand; there is no need to re-query the server for it.
regards, tom lane
