Re: A question about Vacuum analyze

>>>>In another way, whenever we "delete/truncate and then insert" data into
>>>>a table, it is better to "vacuum anaylze"?
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>>>You shouldn't need a VACUUM if you haven't yet done any updates or
>>>deletes since the TRUNCATE. An ANALYZE seems like a good idea, though.
>>>(You could get away without ANALYZE if the new data has essentially the
>>>same statistics as the old, but if you're making only minor changes, why
>>>are you using this technique at all ...)
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>>After truncate table A, around 60,000 will be inserted. Then a
>>comparision will be done between table A and table B. After that, table
>>B will be updated according to the comparision result. Records inserted
>>into table A is increasing everyday.
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>>So, your suggestion is that after the population of table A, the query
>>planner should be able to find the most efficient query plan because we
>>do truncate but not delete, and we do not need to do vacuum analyze at
>>all, right?
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>no. the suggestion was that a VACUUM is not needed, but
>that an ANALYZE might be.
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Thank you gnari for your answer. But I am a bit confused about not running vacuum but only "analyze". Can I seperate these two operations? I guess "vacuum analyze" do both vacuum and analyze. Or "EXPLAIN ANALYZE" can do it for me?

Emi