On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>> 2. There's an autovacuum background process which already does the
>>> job, doesn't it?
>>
>> Yes, but in its own time. If you know there has been a batch of inserts/deletes you might as well run analyse immediately on that table.
>
> My table is a read-only table after all.
> That's another reason why I'm reluctant using ANALYZE <table>.
>
sorry, i don't follow that... why do you think that a read-only table
doesn't need an ANALYZE?
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