Re: Add important info about ANALYZE after create Functional Index

Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:46:10PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
>> It would seem preferable to call the lack of auto-analyzing after these
>> operations a bug and back-patch a fix that injects an analyze side-effect
>> just before their completion. It doesn't have to be smart either,
>> analyzing things even if the created (or newly validated) index doesn't
>> have statistics of its own isn't a problem in my book.

> I agree the lack of stats may be quite annoying and cause issues, but my
> guess is the chances of backpatching such change are about 0.000001%. We
> have a usable 'workaround' for this - manual analyze.

This doesn't seem clearly different from any other situation where
auto-analyze doesn't react fast enough to suit you. I would not
call it a bug, at least not without a wholesale redefinition of
how auto-analyze is supposed to work. As a close analogy, we
don't make any effort to force an immediate auto-analyze after
CREATE STATISTICS.

I don't see anything in the CREATE STATISTICS man page pointing
that out, either. But there's probably room for "Notes" entries
about it in both places.

regards, tom lane