On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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...?
>
> This is correct. Vacuum is fast, vacuum analyze is pretty slow. We
> could separate them, I guess, and that would eliminate the write-lock
> and be only a readlock.
Possible to slip it in for v6.3? Would make it so that an analyze
could be done nightly, to keep statistics up, and then a vacuum once a
week or so just for garbage collection...?
