> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
> > No, we have no ability to randomly pick rows to use for estimating
> > statistics. Should we have this ability?
>
> That would be really slick, especially given the fact that VACUUM runs
> much faster than VACUUM ANALYZE for a lot of PG users. I could change
> my daily maintenance scripts to do a VACUUM of everything, followed by
> a VACUUM ANALYZE of the small tables, followed by a VACUUM ANALYZE
> ESTIMATE (or whatever) of the large tables.
>
> Even cooler would be the ability to set a table size threshold, so
> that VACUUM ANALYZE would automatically choose the appropriate method
> based on the table size.
Added to TODO:
* Allow ANALYZE to process a certain random precentage of rows
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