Re: docs: mention autovacuum when ANALYZE is recommended - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: docs: mention autovacuum when ANALYZE is recommended
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Msg-id 20090807021755.GV7769@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: docs: mention autovacuum when ANALYZE is recommended  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: docs: mention autovacuum when ANALYZE is recommended  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Bruce asked me to look for places in the docs that mention that an
> > ANALYZE is recommended, to mention the possibility that autovacuum takes
> > care.  This patch does that.
>
> I think you found the right places to touch, but is "let the autovacuum
> daemon do it" sufficient?  It seems like that needs some qualifiers
> about whether autovacuum is enabled, how long you should expect to wait
> for the stats to get updated, etc.  It's probably not a good idea to
> duplicate all that in each place, but maybe a link to the main
> documentation about autovacuum is reasonable in each place.

Sorry this fell through the cracks.  How does this look?  My idea would
be to backpatch it to 8.3 and 8.4.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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