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Foreign tables are analyzed only when explicitly selected.
2. When I run the analyze command with the FDW table as a parameter
That
Also, I am not clear if analyze is run on FDW tables when Automvacuum runs;
does it run analyze on FDW tables by default.
Based on the prior item I would expect no. It would usually have insufficient data to do otherwise.
I didn’t look hard but aside from this comment about analyze working on foreign tables, if asked, I find no relevant “why” discussion regarding the interaction of analyze and foreign tables in the documentation. Frankly, I’m unsure why it even needs to work at all.
David J.
