Add stxdinherit flag to pg_statistic_ext_data

Add pg_statistic_ext_data.stxdinherit flag, so that for each extended
statistics definition we can store two versions of data - one for the
relation alone, one for the whole inheritance tree. This is analogous to
pg_statistic.stainherit, but we failed to include such flag in catalogs
for extended statistics, and we had to work around it (see commits
859b3003de, 36c4bc6e72 and 20b9fa308e).

This changes the relationship between the two catalogs storing extended
statistics objects (pg_statistic_ext and pg_statistic_ext_data). Until
now, there was a simple 1:1 mapping - for each definition there was one
pg_statistic_ext_data row, and this row was inserted while creating the
statistics (and then updated during ANALYZE). With the stxdinherit flag,
we don't know how many rows there will be (child relations may be added
after the statistics object is defined), so there may be up to two rows.

We could make CREATE STATISTICS to always create both rows, but that
seems wasteful - without partitioning we only need stxdinherit=false
rows, and declaratively partitioned tables need only stxdinherit=true.
So we no longer initialize pg_statistic_ext_data in CREATE STATISTICS,
and instead make that a responsibility of ANALYZE. Which is what we do
for regular statistics too.

Patch by me, with extensive improvements and fixes by Justin Pryzby.

Author: Tomas Vondra, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210923212624.GI831%40telsasoft.com

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/statistics/statistics.h b/src/include/statistics/statistics.h
index 4a3676278de..bb7ef1240e0 100644
--- a/src/include/statistics/statistics.h
+++ b/src/include/statistics/statistics.h
@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ typedef struct MCVList
 	MCVItem		items[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER];	/* array of MCV items */
 } MCVList;
 
-extern MVNDistinct *statext_ndistinct_load(Oid mvoid);
-extern MVDependencies *statext_dependencies_load(Oid mvoid);
-extern MCVList *statext_mcv_load(Oid mvoid);
+extern MVNDistinct *statext_ndistinct_load(Oid mvoid, bool inh);
+extern MVDependencies *statext_dependencies_load(Oid mvoid, bool inh);
+extern MCVList *statext_mcv_load(Oid mvoid, bool inh);
 
-extern void BuildRelationExtStatistics(Relation onerel, double totalrows,
+extern void BuildRelationExtStatistics(Relation onerel, bool inh, double totalrows,
 									   int numrows, HeapTuple *rows,
 									   int natts, VacAttrStats **vacattrstats);
 extern int	ComputeExtStatisticsRows(Relation onerel,
@@ -121,9 +121,10 @@ extern Selectivity statext_clauselist_selectivity(PlannerInfo *root,
 												  bool is_or);
 extern bool has_stats_of_kind(List *stats, char requiredkind);
 extern StatisticExtInfo *choose_best_statistics(List *stats, char requiredkind,
+												bool inh,
 												Bitmapset **clause_attnums,
 												List **clause_exprs,
 												int nclauses);
-extern HeapTuple statext_expressions_load(Oid stxoid, int idx);
+extern HeapTuple statext_expressions_load(Oid stxoid, bool inh, int idx);
 
 #endif							/* STATISTICS_H */