Re: Answering my own question

Now THAT's REALLY fascinating. We upgraded from 6.5 to 7.1 about 4-5
months ago , and only got this problem after that. I leave "ANALYZE" out of
VACUUM due to the large volume of (I though needless) output that gets
piped to my cron_log.

Does anyone have a feal for how "necessary" VACUUM ANALYZE is over "VACUUM"
??

Gerry

ghaverla(at)freenet(dot)edm
onton.ab.ca To: gerry(dot)smit(at)lombard(dot)ca
cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
15/05/2002 01:50 PM Fax to:
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Answering my own question

On Wed, 15 May 2002 gerry(dot)smit(at)lombard(dot)ca wrote:

> I found, on http://www.argudo.org/postgresql/soft-tuning-10.html my
> answer. (Excellent site btw) What I need to do is prefix my SELECT
> statements for this table with the statement :
>
> SET enable_seqscan='false';
>
> as in :
>
> SET enable_seqscan='false';SELECT * FROM pol_xref_d WHERE
policy_no=1200079
> ORDER BY sequence;

Some else mentioned ANALYZE (or is it ANALYSE?). Anyway,
I seem to remember reading someplace that with newer versions
of PostgreSQL, when you used to VACUUM on a regular basis,
you were supposed to change over to VACUUM ANALYSE (ANALYZE?)
some (all?) of the time. My memory is fuzzy about this,
so perhaps the docs will have something on this.

Gord

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