> > This is correct. Vacuum is fast, vacuum analyze is pretty slow. We
> > could separate them, I guess, and that would eliminate the write-lock
> > and be only a readlock.
>
> Possible to slip it in for v6.3? Would make it so that an analyze
> could be done nightly, to keep statistics up, and then a vacuum once a
> week or so just for garbage collection...?
When I added analyze, I did not understand the issues, so I was able to
work from Vadim's code in vacuum. I put it on the TODO list. Don't
know if it can make 6.3. I am working on cleaning up the cacheoffset
code right now.
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Bruce Momjian
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