From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: What's The Difference Between VACUUM and VACUUM ANALYZE?
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 12:31:11 +0100
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"Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>
>> Shoot me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't VACUUM ANALYZE check _all_ tuples,
>> as compared to the random selection employed by ANALYZE?
>
> You are wrong, but it won't be me the one to shoot you.
>
> There have been noises towards making the ANALYZE portion use the same
> scan that VACUUM already does, but nobody has written the code (it would
> be useful for some kinds of stats).
I think it does for the count of total records in the table.
But not for the rest of the stats.
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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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