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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Aramaki Zyake <zyake.mk4@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Required locks for ANALYZE
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 16:06:42 -0500
Message-ID: <ZUv4Ytt-vVMSLrb8@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d91b2f1.1c69fb81.bf75c.2036@mx.google.com>
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 04:46:56PM +0900, Aramaki Zyake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m terribly sorry for the delay of response.
> 
>  
> 
> >This does not really seem like an improvement.  The second formulation is
> 
> >pedantically correct, but also unintelligible.
> 
> > 
> 
> > Maybe we could make it say "run in parallel with non-DDL activity" ?
> 
>  
> 
> I completely agree with you, therefore, I amended it as follows.
> 
> ----
> 
> ANALYZE requires only a read lock on the target table, so it can run in
> 
> parallel with non-DDL activity on the table.

I know this report is four years old, but attached patch applied to
master.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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  [text/x-diff] analyze.diff (517B, ../ZUv4Ytt-vVMSLrb8@momjian.us/2-analyze.diff)
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/analyze.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/analyze.sgml
index 4c79a01eb6..6ed8e7241b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/analyze.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/analyze.sgml
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ ANALYZE [ ( <replaceable class="parameter">option</replaceable> [, ...] ) ] [ <r
   <para>
    <command>ANALYZE</command>
    requires only a read lock on the target table, so it can run in
-   parallel with other activity on the table.
+   parallel with other non-DDL activity on the table.
   </para>
 
   <para>

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