Re: docs: mention autovacuum when ANALYZE is recommended

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > > Bruce asked me to look for places in the docs that mention that an
> > > ANALYZE is recommended, to mention the possibility that autovacuum takes
> > > care. This patch does that.
> >
> > I think you found the right places to touch, but is "let the autovacuum
> > daemon do it" sufficient? It seems like that needs some qualifiers
> > about whether autovacuum is enabled, how long you should expect to wait
> > for the stats to get updated, etc. It's probably not a good idea to
> > duplicate all that in each place, but maybe a link to the main
> > documentation about autovacuum is reasonable in each place.
>
> Sorry this fell through the cracks. How does this look? My idea would
> be to backpatch it to 8.3 and 8.4.

Committed, but backpatched to 8.4 only.

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