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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
Cc: PGSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Is ANALYZE transactional?
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:30:34 -0500
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Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com> writes:
> If I do:
>   begin;
>   update some_table set foo = newvalue where a_bunch_of_rows_are_changed;
>   analyze some_table;
>   rollback;

> does it roll back the statistics?  (I think the answer is yes, but I need to be sure.)

Yes --- ANALYZE doesn't do anything magic, just a plain UPDATE of those
rows.  (You could have easily tested this for yourself...)

			regards, tom lane



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