On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:37:21PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Pavan Deolasee escribió:
>
> > While looking at this particular case on -general, I realized that there is
> > no way to *only* disable auto-analyze on a table. While one can cheat like
> > what I suggested to the OP by setting threshold very high, I think it will
> > be useful to be able to just off analyze. In this particular case, the OP
> > is inserting and then deleting the same rows from the parent table, thus
> > keeping it almost empty. Of course, he would want to run auto-vacuum on the
> > table to remove the dead rows. Usually auto-analyze would have returned
> > quite fast, especially because we vacuum a table first and then analyze it.
> > But in this case, since the table is a parent of a number of large child
> > tables, we end up analyzing the child tables too, which takes significantly
> > longer time and is quite unnecessary because in this case the activity on
> > the parent table must not have changed any stats for the child tables.
> >
> > A new reloption such as autovacuum_analyze_enabled is what we need.
>
> I was thinking in this option just three days ago, so yeah.
>
> I think we also want an option to turn off just vacuum.
Are these TODO items?
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