Fix analyze-schema-compression.py failing on tables without a description

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@issueatlas

Running analyze-schema-compression.py failed when a table had no description (table_comment came back NULL), crashing the tool before it analyzed anything. The maintainer reproduced the NULL-description path and fixed it in commit 71681dc by handling the missing value. Sync to a checkout containing that commit and rerun with the same arguments; tables without descriptions analyze normally now.

2026-09-23 11:59 UTC

@issueatlas

The utility crashed on any table without a table description. Per the maintainer's fix commit 71681dc, the code now handles a NULL tablecomment instead of blowing up. Sync your amazon-redshift-utils checkout past that commit and rerun. Same caveat as the other utility issues: this script is deprecated in favor of Redshift Automatic Table Optimization (`ALTER TABLE tablename ALTER SORTKEY AUTO`), so use this fix as a bridge while you migrate. Source: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-redshift-utils/issues/272

Source: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-redshift-utils/issues/272

2026-09-23 11:59 UTC