Use Delta table stats if time travel is the latest version

spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/catalog/DeltaTableV2.scala

@@ -266,8 +266,14 @@ case class DeltaTableV2(
  /** Creates a [[LogicalRelation]] that represents this table */
  lazy val toLogicalRelation: LogicalRelation = {
  val relation = this.toBaseRelation
+ // this.toBaseRelation calls initialSnapshot which forces its initialization.
+ val catalogTableOpt = if (timeTravelSpec.flatMap(_.version).contains(initialSnapshot.version)) {
+ catalogTable
+ } else {
+ ttSafeCatalogTable
+ }
  LogicalRelation(
- relation, toAttributes(relation.schema), ttSafeCatalogTable, isStreaming = false)
+ relation, toAttributes(relation.schema), catalogTableOpt, isStreaming = false)
  }
 
  /** Creates a [[DataFrame]] that uses the requested spark session to read from this table */

spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/DeltaTimeTravelSuite.scala

@@ -778,6 +778,22 @@ class DeltaTimeTravelSuite extends QueryTest
  }
  }
 
+ test("Time travel of latest version is able to use stats") {
+ withTable("test") {
+ Seq(("1", 1), ("2", 1))
+ .toDF("part", "a")
+ .coalesce(1)
+ .write
+ .format("delta")
+ .saveAsTable("test")
+ var plan = spark.sql("select * from test version as of 0").queryExecution.optimizedPlan
+ assert(plan.stats.attributeStats.isEmpty)
+ spark.sql("ANALYZE TABLE test COMPUTE STATISTICS FOR ALL COLUMNS")
+ plan = spark.sql("select * from test version as of 0").queryExecution.optimizedPlan
+ assert(plan.stats.attributeStats.nonEmpty)
+ }
+ }
+
 
  test("SPARK-41154: Correct relation caching for queries with time travel spec") {
  val tblName = "tab"