transformTableLikeClause believed that it could process extended
statistics immediately because "the representation of CreateStatsStmt
doesn't depend on column numbers". That was true when extended stats
were first introduced, but it was falsified by the addition of
extended stats on expressions: the parsed expression tree is fed
forward by the LIKE option, and that will contain Vars. So if the
new table doesn't have attnums identical to the old one's (typically
because there are some dropped columns in the old one), that doesn't
work. The CREATE goes through, but it emits invalid statistics
objects that will cause problems later.
Fortunately, we already have logic that can adapt expression trees
to the possibly-new column numbering. To use it, we have to delay
processing of CREATE_TABLE_LIKE_STATISTICS into expandTableLikeClause,
just as for other LIKE options that involve expressions.
Per bug #18468 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to v14 where
extended statistics on expressions were added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18468-f5add190e3fa5902@postgresql.org
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