> CREATE VIEW pg_stats_ext_exprs WITH (security_barrier) AS > SELECT cn.nspname AS schemaname, > c.relname AS tablename, > + s.stxrelid AS tableid, > sn.nspname AS statistics_schemaname, > s.stxname AS statistics_name, > + s.oid AS statid, > pg_get_userbyid(s.stxowner) AS statistics_owner, > - stat.expr, > + expr.expr, > + 0 - expr.ordinality AS expr_attnum,
I left the expr_attnum stuff out. It seems to make this patch quite large and complicated, we don't plan to use it for the pg_dump patch, and I'm not sure about showing users a "synthetic attnum" that seems to have no other point of reference. Would this information be useful in pg_dump somewhere? I'm curious to hear more about the intent.
expr_attnum was something that Michael Paquier had lamented that the view didn't have. There is obviously no present need for it, as pg_dump isn't being modified for extended stats at all.
I didn't see much value in adding attnum here given the size of the changes to the expected output it produces.
Same reasons for putting that in - people had lamented that we couldn't order the dump by attnum, and ordering by attname feels weird somehow. Again, we don't presently need it.