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Make attstattarget nullable

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This changes the pg_attribute field attstattarget into a nullable
field in the variable-length part of the row.  If no value is set by
the user for attstattarget, it is now null instead of previously -1.
This saves space in pg_attribute and tuple descriptors for most
practical scenarios.  (ATTRIBUTE_FIXED_PART_SIZE is reduced from 108
to 104.)  Also, null is the semantically more correct value.

The ANALYZE code internally continues to represent the default
statistics target by -1, so that that code can avoid having to deal
with null values.  But that is now contained to the ANALYZE code.
Only the DDL code deals with attstattarget possibly null.

For system columns, the field is now always null.  The ANALYZE code
skips system columns anyway.

To set a column's statistics target to the default value, the new
command form ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DEFAULT can be used.  (SET
STATISTICS -1 still works.)

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4da8d211-d54d-44b9-9847-f2a9f1184c76@eisentraut.org
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Peter Eisentraut
2024-01-13 18:14:53 +01:00
parent 45da69371e
commit 4f622503d6
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@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ ALTER TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>
ALTER [ COLUMN ] <replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> ADD GENERATED { ALWAYS | BY DEFAULT } AS IDENTITY [ ( <replaceable>sequence_options</replaceable> ) ]
ALTER [ COLUMN ] <replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> { SET GENERATED { ALWAYS | BY DEFAULT } | SET <replaceable>sequence_option</replaceable> | RESTART [ [ WITH ] <replaceable class="parameter">restart</replaceable> ] } [...]
ALTER [ COLUMN ] <replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> DROP IDENTITY [ IF EXISTS ]
ALTER [ COLUMN ] <replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> SET STATISTICS <replaceable class="parameter">integer</replaceable>
ALTER [ COLUMN ] <replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> SET STATISTICS { <replaceable class="parameter">integer</replaceable> | DEFAULT }
ALTER [ COLUMN ] <replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> SET ( <replaceable class="parameter">attribute_option</replaceable> = <replaceable class="parameter">value</replaceable> [, ... ] )
ALTER [ COLUMN ] <replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> RESET ( <replaceable class="parameter">attribute_option</replaceable> [, ... ] )
ALTER [ COLUMN ] <replaceable class="parameter">column_name</replaceable> SET STORAGE { PLAIN | EXTERNAL | EXTENDED | MAIN | DEFAULT }
@ -328,9 +328,11 @@ WITH ( MODULUS <replaceable class="parameter">numeric_literal</replaceable>, REM
This form
sets the per-column statistics-gathering target for subsequent
<link linkend="sql-analyze"><command>ANALYZE</command></link> operations.
The target can be set in the range 0 to 10000; alternatively, set it
to -1 to revert to using the system default statistics
target (<xref linkend="guc-default-statistics-target"/>).
The target can be set in the range 0 to 10000. Set it
to <literal>DEFAULT</literal> to revert to using the system default
statistics target (<xref linkend="guc-default-statistics-target"/>).
(Setting to a value of -1 is an obsolete way spelling to get the same
outcome.)
For more information on the use of statistics by the
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> query planner, refer to
<xref linkend="planner-stats"/>.