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> Nobody likes to take the time to move discussions, do they? And ya, I'm
> about as guilty *sigh*
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> Move to pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org...
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> On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:
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> > At 15:01 +0200 on 2/2/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
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> > I think the garbage collection should be separated from the statistics.
> > Garbage collection needs a write lock, statistics only a read lock. If they
> > are not done at the same time, the various tables would be locked for
> > shorter periods.
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> Hrmmmm...good point, I think. Bruce? Vadim? When vacuum'ng a
> large table, how much time is spend 'garbage collecting' vs 'statistics'?
> I thought that 'vacuum analyze' *was* the statistics aspect of it? Where
> just 'vacuum' was only garbage collection...?
This is correct. Vacuum is fast, vacuum analyze is pretty slow. We
could separate them, I guess, and that would eliminate the write-lock
and be only a readlock.
--
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
