On 2021-Oct-19, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 05:15:59PM -0300, Euler Taveira wrote:
> > I agree that it might surprise an user and it would be good to document it.
> > However, it does not belong to the description. I would add it to the Notes
> > section at the end of the ALTER TABLE page.
>
> No objections to the suggested addition and the location of the
> addition (paragraph of SET DATA TYPE rather than "Notes"), but I think
> that the phrasing could be better:
> "The column's statistics are removed, hence a follow-up ANALYZE is
> suited to update the statistics to the new column type."
Dunno, putting it in the middle of the existing paragraph looks odd to
me. I would put it in a separate one instead, as in the attached.
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Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
