Re: Autovacuum and Autoanalyze

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum and Autoanalyze
Date: 2008-09-17 14:22:28
Message-ID: 20080917142228.GA3855@alvh.no-ip.org
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Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:09 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> > Isn't autoanalyze a waste of time during a bulk load? Seems better to
> > run ANALYZE manually at the end.
>
> Its not a waste of time because it catches tables immediately they have
> been loaded, not just at the end of the bulk load. Running ANALYZE is a
> waste of time if autoanalyze has already caught it, which is why that's
> never been added onto the end of a pg_dump script. But currently this is
> true only when we have both autoVACUUM and autoANALYZE enabled.

Hmm, one of the first complaints about defaulting autovacuum to on was
that it made restores so much longer *because* it was choosing to do
autoanalyzes on the tables as they were imported. It was then that the
auto-cancel mechanism was introduced.

http://pgsql.markmail.org/message/rqyjkafuw43426xy

Why doesn't this new request conflict with that one?

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