Re: pg_upgrade and statistics

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade and statistics
Date: 2012-03-13 18:52:29
Message-ID: 20120313185229.GA23967@momjian.us
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:46:06PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> > You probably are going to ask: "why not just run ANALYZE and be done
> > with it?"
>
> Uhm yes. If analyze takes a long time then something is broken. It's
> only reading a sample which should be pretty much a fixed number of
> pages per table. It shouldn't take much longer on your large database
> than on your smaller databases.
>
> Perhaps you're running vacuum analyze by mistake?

pg_upgrade recommends running this command:

vacuumdb --all --analyze-only

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