Re: 8.3-beta4, analyze and db owner

Clodoaldo wrote:
> I'm the owner of a database and when i issue an analyze command on it,
> the pg tables are skipped with the message that only the owner can
> analyze them:
>
> $ psql fahstats -U cpn
> Welcome to psql 8.3beta4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type: \copyright for distribution terms
> \h for help with SQL commands
> \? for help with psql commands
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> \q to quit
>
> fahstats=> analyze;
> WARNING: skipping "pg_authid" --- only table or database owner can analyze it
> WARNING: skipping "pg_database" --- only table or database owner can analyze it
> WARNING: skipping "pg_tablespace" --- only table or database owner
> can analyze it
> WARNING: skipping "pg_pltemplate" --- only table or database owner
> can analyze it
> WARNING: skipping "pg_shdepend" --- only table or database owner can analyze it
> WARNING: skipping "pg_shdescription" --- only table or database owner
> can analyze it
> WARNING: skipping "pg_auth_members" --- only table or database owner
> can analyze it
> ANALYZE
> fahstats=> \l
> List of databases
> Name | Owner | Encoding
> -----------+----------+-----------
> fahstats | cpn | SQL_ASCII
> postgres | postgres | SQL_ASCII
> template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
> template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
> (4 rows)

These are the global shared tables, that exist only once in the cluster
- not once per database. They can only be analyzed by "postgres" in this
case.

(There's a whole bunch of other pg_ tables that are local to the
database, and those should be analyzed just fine in this case)

Seems a bit unnecessary that we should even try and then emit a warning
for them though.

//Magnus