Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> I don't understand why this would be. I don't think there
>> are any lock issues, and I don't see any obvious I/O issues.
> The ANALYZE commands hold read locks on the tables you wish to write to.
Unless there were more commands that Ian didn't show us, he's not taking
any locks that would conflict with ANALYZE. So I don't believe this is
the explanation.
regards, tom lane