>>  Please do --- I have a lot of other stuff on my plate.
>>
>>     
>
> Please see the attached patch. One change I made is to hold the SHARE lock
> on the page while ANALYZE is reading tuples from it. I thought it would
> be a right thing to do instead of repeatedly acquiring/releasing the lock.
>   
I have applied the patch and have started my test again, it takes a 
little while to fill up so I should have the results sometime tomorrow.

Thanks for the quick response.
 Stuart

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