>> The only annoyance is that the interface I use most often, Python's
>> pgdb, runs everything in a transaction, and you can't analyze in a
>> transaction.
>
> Hm? We've allowed ANALYZE inside a transaction for a long time.
I'm stuck with using 7.2, for now, and I get this:
ERROR: ANALYZE cannot run inside a BEGIN/END block
I'll be happy to find out that this restriction's been removed in later
versions.
- John D. Burger
MITRE