Re: First steps with 8.3 and autovacuum launcher - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

[ on further thought ]

"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
>> ... solving the problem 
>> for analyze is a nice piece of low-hanging fruit that solves an 
>> immediate problem that has been reported.

Actually, if you wanted a low-hanging solution to that, it would
probably be to revert this 8.2 patch:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-09/msg00284.php

We did that because people were complaining of unexpected failures in
manual ANALYZEs, but perhaps the cure is worse than the disease.
        regards, tom lane