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Commit 859b3003de disabled building of extended stats for inheritance trees, to prevent updating the same catalog row twice. While that resolved the issue, it also means there are no extended stats for declaratively partitioned tables, because there are no data in the non-leaf relations. That also means declaratively partitioned tables were not affected by the issue 859b3003de addressed, which means this is a regression affecting queries that calculate estimates for the whole inheritance tree as a whole (which includes e.g. GROUP BY queries). But because partitioned tables are empty, we can invert the condition and build statistics only for the case with inheritance, without losing anything. And we can consider them when calculating estimates. It may be necessary to run ANALYZE on partitioned tables, to collect proper statistics. For declarative partitioning there should no prior statistics, and it might take time before autoanalyze is triggered. For tables partitioned by inheritance the statistics may include data from child relations (if built 859b3003de), contradicting the current code. Report and patch by Justin Pryzby, minor fixes and cleanup by me. Backpatch all the way back to PostgreSQL 10, where extended statistics were introduced (same as 859b3003de). Author: Justin Pryzby Reported-by: Justin Pryzby Backpatch-through: 10 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210923212624.GI831%40telsasoft.com
# Generating dummy probes If Postgres isn't configured with dtrace enabled, we need to generate dummy probes for the entries in probes.d, that do nothing. This is accomplished in Unix via the sed script `Gen_dummy_probes.sed`. We used to use this in MSVC builds using the perl utility `psed`, which mimicked sed. However, that utility disappeared from Windows perl distributions and so we converted the sed script to a perl script to be used in MSVC builds. We still keep the sed script as the authoritative source for generating these dummy probes because except on Windows perl is not a hard requirement when building from a tarball. So, if you need to change the way dummy probes are generated, first change the sed script, and when it's working generate the perl script. This can be accomplished by using the perl utility s2p. s2p is no longer part of the perl core, so it might not be on your system, but it is available on CPAN and also in many package systems. e.g. on Fedora it can be installed using `cpan App::s2p` or `dnf install perl-App-s2p`. The Makefile contains a recipe for regenerating Gen_dummy_probes.pl, so all you need to do is once you have s2p installed is `make Gen_dummy_probes.pl` Note that in a VPATH build this will generate the file in the vpath tree, not the source tree.