Re: BUG #4812: statistics not available on tables containing only hstore column - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: BUG #4812: statistics not available on tables containing only hstore column
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Msg-id 4A126EBB.2000208@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: BUG #4812: statistics not available on tables containing only hstore column  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I think that code probably originated at a time when palloc(0) threw an
> error, and was meant to avoid any corner-case failures in the subsequent
> logic.  I can't get very excited about the case --- it seems to me the
> *real* fix for this complaint is to give hstore some ANALYZE support ---

Possibly. The standard type analyze function is not used for hstore
because it doesn't have an equals operator.

> but if you've tested that it behaves sanely with no columns I have no
> objection to committing it.

Committed.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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