Re: Transactions, stats and analyze (oh-my)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Transactions, stats and analyze (oh-my)
Date: 2016-02-16 21:32:53
Message-ID: 18549.1455658373@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> writes:
> I would like to roll a number of steps into a transaction. What happens to
> the stats data generated by ANALYZE if the transaction is rolled back?

> This message says the stats are reverted:
> http://postgresql.nabble.com/Analyze-during-a-transaction-td5775069.html

That's correct. They're just rows in a table, same as any other database
data.

> This implies they are not:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1XjbTw-0002f9-Ri@gemulon.postgresql.org

That's about data in the pg_class row, which is a different thing from
the pg_statistic data that you're worried about.

regards, tom lane

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