Re: Optional skipping of unchanged relations during ANALYZE?

From: Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
Cc: VASUKI M <vasukianand0119(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ilia Evdokimov <ilya(dot)evdokimov(at)tantorlabs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Optional skipping of unchanged relations during ANALYZE?
Date: 2026-01-22 19:42:52
Message-ID: CAJSLCQ2ZTLng_4vF9O74oxaOg_cAxD6=ixLMoW_+5CxCkNtXrA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 4:44 AM Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Re: VASUKI M
> > VACUUM(SMART);
>
> IMHO it was a historical mistake to combine VACUUM and ANALYZE into a
> single command. We should not add any more options on that
> combination. If people want to pass options to ANALYZE, they should
> call ANALYZE and not VACUUM.
>

I don't know if I go that far, but if you are saying that you dont
think "smart analyze" should be an option for vacuum runs, I can get
onboard with that. We don't really know what any given vacuum run will
do with regards to the table, but if we are shuffling data / storage
around, it probably makes sense to update statistics info along the
way.

Robert Treat
https://xzilla.net

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