Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Conor Walsh <ctw(at)adverb(dot)ly>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...
Date: 2011-02-04 02:33:30
Message-ID: 1296786810.18411.102.camel@jd-desktop
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On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 18:12 -0800, Conor Walsh wrote:
> > I can't remember
> > anyone ever complaining "ANALYZE took too long to run". I only
> > remember complaints of the form "I had to remember to manually run it
> > and I wish it had just happened by itself".
>
> Robert,
>
> This sounds like an argument in favor of an implicit ANALYZE after all
> COPY statements, and/or an implicit autoanalyze check after all
> INSERT/UPDATE statements.

Well that already happens. Assuming you insert/update or copy in a
greater amount than the threshold for the

autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor

Then autovacuum is going to analyze on the next run. The default is .1
so it certainly doesn't take much.

JD

>
> -Conor
>

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