On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> You know why ANALYZE is part of VACUUM? Because at the time I didn't
> know how to scan a table. Vacuum already did that, so I piggybacked on
> that code.
Big difference ... what you did didn't run the risk of breaking existing
applications ... *maybe* there is no choice in this, *maybe* the way that
Peter implemented is the only way it *could* be implemented ... all I'm
arguing is that there should have been a discussion *before* it was
implemented to hammer that point out ...
... just like we've done for the past 4 years now ...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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