In pg_dump, don't dump a stats object unless dumping underlying table.
If the underlying table isn't being dumped, it's useless to dump
an extended statistics object; it'll just cause errors at restore.
We have always applied similar policies to, say, indexes.
(When and if we get cross-table stats objects, it might be profitable
to think a little harder about what to do with them. But for now
there seems no point in considering a stats object as anything but
an appendage of its table.)
Rian McGuire and Tom Lane, per report from Rian McGuire.
Back-patch to supported branches.
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