Add pg_stats_ext view for extended statistics
Regular per-column statistics are stored in pg_statistics catalog, which
is however rather difficult to read, so we also have pg_stats view with
a human-reablable version of the data.
For extended statistic the catalog was fairly easy to read, so we did
not have such human-readable view so far. Commit 9b6babfa2d however did
split the catalog into two, which makes querying harder. Furthermore,
we want to show the multi-column MCV list in a way similar to per-column
stats (and not as a bytea value).
This commit introduces pg_stats_ext view, joining the two catalogs and
massaging the data to produce human-readable output similar to pg_stats.
It also considers RLS and access privileges - the data is shown only when
the user has access to all columns the extended statistic is defined on.
Bumped CATVERSION due to adding new system view.
Author: Dean Rasheed, with improvements by me
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUhT9rt7Ui%3DVdx4N%3D%3DVV5XOK5dsXfnGgVOz_JhAicB%3DZA%40mail.gmail.com
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master
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/aa087ec64f703a52f3c48c70117bb02e578f1802
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml | 192 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql | 41 ++++++++
src/include/catalog/catversion.h | 2 +-
src/test/regress/expected/rules.out | 29 ++++++
4 files changed, 263 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
