Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Why? You can reconstruct it with a simple "ANALYZE" command. Dumping
> > and restoring would mean nailing down cross-version assumptions about
> > what it contains, which doesn't seem real forward-looking...
>
> I seem to recall that people like that kind of thing so that the dump is
> really the current state of the database.
>
> Also, I believe big db's like DB2 and Oracle do such a thing.
>
> I just recall it being discussed some time ago...
I have heard of dumping stats so you are sure your production db has the
same stats as your test database, but with ANALYZE so fast, and our
optimizer so good, I don't see a use case for us.
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