> >In any case, it is hard to see how the present behaviour can be seen as
> >desirable. It obviously causes problems at least for new Postgres
> >users, and we
> >all hope there will be many more of these folks in the future. Thanks
> >for considering this. Mark
>
> Uhmmm... analyze or vacuum on an empty table is fairly pointless. Those
> utilities are supposed to be used on tables that have data.
>
> So the answer is, use them on tables that have data.
What the OP seems to be saying is that to him it would make a
lot of sense to have vacuum by default not act on empty
tables.
Karsten
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