Re: ANALYZE ONLY

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 06:41, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like trying to use ONLY somehow.

> Do you mean as an ANALYZE command option, i.e. ANALYZE (only) table;
> or as a table modifier like gram.y's extended_relation_expr?

> Making it a command option means that the option would apply to all
> tables listed, whereas if it was more like an extended_relation_expr,
> the option would be applied per table listed in the command.

> 1. ANALYZE ONLY ptab, ptab2; -- gather stats on ptab but not on its
> partitions but get stats on ptab2 and stats on its partitions too.
> 2. ANALYZE ONLY ptab, ONLY ptab2; -- gather stats on ptab and ptab2
> without doing that on any of their partitions.

FWIW, I think that's the right approach, for consistency with the
way that ONLY works in DML.

            regards, tom lane