Re: [Proposal] Allow users to specify multiple tables in VACUUM commands

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:06 AM, Bossart, Nathan <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com> wrote:
> I agree with you here, too. I stopped short of allowing customers to explicitly provide per-table options, so the example you provided wouldn’t work here. This is more applicable for something like the following:
>
> VACUUM (FREEZE, VERBOSE) foo, bar (a);
>
> In this case, the FREEZE and VERBOSE options are used for both tables. However, we have a column list specified for ‘bar’, and the ANALYZE option is implied when we specify a column list. So when we process ‘bar’, we need to apply the ANALYZE option, but we do not need it for ‘foo’. For now, that is all that this per-table options variable is used for.

Hm. One argument can be made here: having a column list defined in one
of the tables implies that ANALYZE is enforced for all the relations
listed instead of doing that only on the relations listing columns.
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Michael