Re: Backend crash (long)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Backend crash (long)
Date: 2002-09-18 15:15:27
Message-ID: 17981.1032362127@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 11:03, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Michael Paesold" <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at> writes:
> I have written a test function, that will create a sequence and a table,
> than insert one million rows into the table, analyze the table and create an
> index on one of the columns.
>>
>> You can't run ANALYZE inside a function. In CVS tip there's a check to
>> prevent the VACUUM variant of this problem, but I'm not sure if it
>> handles the ANALYZE variant (yet).

> ANALYZE in 7.3 works fine in a transaction, so it shouldn't it be able
> to work in a function as well?

Possibly it's okay in 7.3; I have a note to look at that, but haven't
done it yet. I think REINDEX has the same problem btw ...

regards, tom lane

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