Re: Analyze using savepoints?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> I read this in the release notes:
> ---
> # Database-wide ANALYZE does not hold locks across tables (Tom)

> This reduces the potential for deadlocks against other backends that 
> want exclusive locks on tables. To get the benefit of this change, do 
> not execute database-wide ANALYZE inside a transaction block (BEGIN 
> block); it must be able to commit and start a new transaction for each 
> table.
> ---

> Does that mean that now if we used savepoints internally, analyze can 
> still be run in a transaction and still not hold lots of locks?

No.
        regards, tom lane