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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Only owners can ANALYZE tables...seems overly restrictive
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Msg-id 20160229180601.GA284094@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Only owners can ANALYZE tables...seems overly restrictive  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Only owners can ANALYZE tables...seems overly restrictive  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 02/29/2016 05:31 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:

> >Realistically, ANALYZE is a background/maintenance task that autovacuum
> >should be handling for you.
>
> Incorrect. That would be autoanalyze and although they are similar they are
> not the same. ANALYZE is used for a number of things, not the least is query
> profiling.

I think you are confusing ANALYZE with EXPLAIN ANALYZE.

I am not aware of any way in which ANALYZE is different from what you
call "autoanalyze" (which is really just an autovacuum-invoked ANALYZE
and for which we don't have any specific term).

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