From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jean-Christophe Boggio <cat(at)thefreecat(dot)org>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: vacuum analyze again... |
Date: | 2001-02-20 19:17:51 |
Message-ID: | 936.982696671@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> I find it hard to believe that VAC ANALYZE is all that much slower than
>> plain VACUUM anyway; fixing the indexes is the slowest part of VACUUM in
>> my experience. It would be useful to know exactly what the columns are
>> in a table where VAC ANALYZE is considered unusably slow.
> VACUUM ANALYZE does a huge number of adt/ function calls. It must be
> those calls that make ANALYZE slower. People report ANALYZE is
> certainly slower, and that is the only difference.
That's why I'm asking what the data is. The function calls per se can't
be that slow; I think there must be some datatype-specific issue.
With TOAST in the mix, TOAST fetches could very well be an issue, but
I didn't think 7.1 was being discussed ...
regards, tom lane
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