Re: document the need to analyze partitioned tables

Hi,

On 10/8/21 14:58, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Cleaned up and attached as a .patch.
>
> The patch implementing autoanalyze on partitioned tables should
> revert relevant portions of this patch.

I went through this patch and I'd like to propose a couple changes, per
the 0002 patch:

1) I've reworded the changes in maintenance.sgml a bit. It sounded a bit
strange before, but I'm not a native speaker so maybe it's worse ...

2) Remove unnecessary whitespace changes in perform.sgml.

3) Simplify the analyze.sgml changes a bit - it was trying to cram too
much stuff into a single paragraph, so I split that.

Does that seem OK, or did omit something important?

FWIW I think it's really confusing we have inheritance and partitioning,
and partitions and child tables. And sometimes we use partitioning in
the generic sense (i.e. including the inheritance approach), and
sometimes only the declarative variant. Same for partitions vs child
tables. I can't even imagine how confusing this has to be for people
just learning this stuff. They must be in permanent WTF?! state ...

regards

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