Re: VACUUM ANALYZE is faster than ANALYZE?

From: Nicolas Barbier <nicolas(dot)barbier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: VACUUM ANALYZE is faster than ANALYZE?
Date: 2012-02-22 13:13:34
Message-ID: CAP-rdTZRDc4P4Zg=+U-Ct68S5V6ri=EeFv3HSVc8TSVgRQMA=g@mail.gmail.com
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2012/2/22 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I had to reply to query about usage VACUUM ANALYZE or ANALYZE. I
>> expected so ANALYZE should be faster then VACUUM ANALYZE.
>>
>> But is not true. Why?
>
> I'm pretty sure that VACUUM ANALYZE *will* be faster than ANALYZE in
> general, because VACUUM has to scan the whole table, and ANALYZE only
> a fixed-size subset of its pages.

It sounds like you just said the opposite of what you wanted to say.

Nicolas

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