Re: ANALYZE ONLY

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Harris <harmic(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Melih Mutlu <m(dot)melihmutlu(at)gmail(dot)com>, postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl, ilya(dot)evdokimov(at)tantorlabs(dot)com
Subject: Re: ANALYZE ONLY
Date: 2024-08-22 02:09:12
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 at 13:38, Michael Harris <harmic(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Would we want to apply that change to VACUUM too? That might be a
> bit drastic, especially if you had a multi-level inheritance structure featuring
> large tables.

I think they'd need to work the same way as for "VACUUM (ANALYZE)", it
would be strange to analyze some tables that you didn't vacuum. It's
just a much bigger pill to swallow in terms of the additional effort.

> It feels a bit like VACUUM and ANALYZE have opposite natural defaults here.
> For VACUUM it does not make much sense to vacuum only at the partitioned
> table level and not include the partitions, since it would do nothing
> - that might
> be why the existing code always adds the partitions.

Yeah, I suspect that's exactly why it was coded that way.

David

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