Re: When to ANALYZE w/ auto-vacuum

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql(at)ultimeth(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: When to ANALYZE w/ auto-vacuum
Date: 2008-02-10 06:11:00
Message-ID: 8381.1202623860@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql(at)ultimeth(dot)com> writes:
> 1. There is one nightly process I run where I create a fairly large TEMP
> table (well over 1 million rows), and then I immediately use it in a
> subsequent SELECT. Would a scripted ANALYZE be really needed here, or
> does the auto-vacuum track the large TEMP table as I create it (via a
> single SELECT).

> 2. For that manner, do TEMP tables get higher priority in auto-vacuum
> runs? That would seem to be a good idea.

autovacuum cannot touch other sessions' temp tables at all --- it
physically doesn't have access to them. (To give it such access would
require destroying most of the performance advantages of making a table
temp in the first place.)

regards, tom lane

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