| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: docs: mention autovacuum when ANALYZE is recommended |
| Date: | 2009-08-07 02:17:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20090807021755.GV7769@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Bruce asked me to look for places in the docs that mention that an
> > ANALYZE is recommended, to mention the possibility that autovacuum takes
> > care. This patch does that.
>
> I think you found the right places to touch, but is "let the autovacuum
> daemon do it" sufficient? It seems like that needs some qualifiers
> about whether autovacuum is enabled, how long you should expect to wait
> for the stats to get updated, etc. It's probably not a good idea to
> duplicate all that in each place, but maybe a link to the main
> documentation about autovacuum is reasonable in each place.
Sorry this fell through the cracks. How does this look? My idea would
be to backpatch it to 8.3 and 8.4.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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| autoanalyze-doc-2.patch | text/x-diff | 7.7 KB |
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