On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 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...?
>
> When I added analyze, I did not understand the issues, so I was able to
> work from Vadim's code in vacuum. I put it on the TODO list. Don't
> know if it can make 6.3. I am working on cleaning up the cacheoffset
> code right now.
Okay...personally, I'm finding 'vacuum <table>' an acceptable work
around, so it isn't too big of a priority :)
