On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:40:13 +0800
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would it be an idea to have pg_dump append an ANALYZE; command to the end of
> its dumps to assist newbies / inexperienced admins?
That strikes me as a good idea; a lot of the questions we get on
-general and on IRC are solved by suggesting "have you run ANALYZE?"
And that is only the sub-section of the user community that takes the
time to track down the problem and posts about it to the mailing
list -- I shudder to think how many people have never taken the time
to tune their database at all.
Given that ANALYZE is now a separate command, so there is no need to
run a VACUUM (which could be much more expensive); furthermore, since
ANALYZE now only takes a statistical sampling of the full table, it
shouldn't take very long, even on large tables. However, I'd say we
should make this behavior optional, controlled by a command-line
switch, but it should be enabled by default.
Cheers,
Neil
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Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
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