Nobody likes to take the time to move discussions, do they? And ya, I'm
about as guilty *sigh*
Move to pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org...
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:
> At 15:01 +0200 on 2/2/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> I think the garbage collection should be separated from the statistics.
> Garbage collection needs a write lock, statistics only a read lock. If they
> are not done at the same time, the various tables would be locked for
> shorter periods.
Hrmmmm...good point, I think. Bruce? Vadim? When vacuum'ng a
large table, how much time is spend 'garbage collecting' vs 'statistics'?
I thought that 'vacuum analyze' *was* the statistics aspect of it? Where
just 'vacuum' was only garbage collection...?
