Hi,
On 2021-08-09 16:02:33 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2021-Jul-27, Andres Freund wrote:
>
> > Isn't this going to create a *lot* of redundant sampling? Especially if you
> > have any sort of nested partition tree. In the most absurd case a partition
> > with n parents will get sampled n times, solely due to changes to itself.
>
> It seems to me that you're barking up the wrong tree on this point.
> This problem you describe is not something that was caused by this
> patch; ANALYZE has always worked like this. We have discussed the idea
> of avoiding redundant sampling, but it's clear that it is not a simple
> problem, and solving it was not in scope for this patch.
I don't agree. There's a difference between this happening after a manual
ANALYZE on partition roots, and this continuously happening in production
workloads due to auto-analyzes...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
