diff --git a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_relation.c b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_relation.c
index f92e16e..09546b5 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_relation.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_relation.c
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ pgstat_copy_relation_stats(Relation dst, Relation src)
  * We assume that a relcache entry's pgstat_info field is zeroed by relcache.c
  * when the relcache entry is made; thereafter it is long-lived data.
  *
+ * Ideally we wouldn't need to unlink relations from views as we don't count
+ * stats for relations without storage but some operations can change a relation
+ * to a view, in which case the previous relation should be unlinked.
+ *
  * This does not create a reference to a stats entry in shared memory, nor
  * allocate memory for the pending stats. That happens in
  * pgstat_assoc_relation().
@@ -92,17 +96,6 @@ pgstat_copy_relation_stats(Relation dst, Relation src)
 void
 pgstat_init_relation(Relation rel)
 {
-	char		relkind = rel->rd_rel->relkind;
-
-	/*
-	 * We only count stats for relations with storage and partitioned tables
-	 */
-	if (!RELKIND_HAS_STORAGE(relkind) && relkind != RELKIND_PARTITIONED_TABLE)
-	{
-		rel->pgstat_enabled = false;
-		rel->pgstat_info = NULL;
-		return;
-	}
 
 	if (!pgstat_track_counts)
 	{