On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:11:07AM +0200, Brian Modra wrote:
> Thanks, I think you have me on the right track. I'm testing a vacuum
> analyse now to see how long it takes, and then I'll set it up to
> automatically run every night (so that it has a chance to complete
> before about 6am.)
Note that "VACUUM ANALYSE" and "ANALYSE" are not identical: the former also
performs vacuum. On a table that is not updating that often but that is
expanding rapidly, you may not need that extra I/O. Analyse on its own can
perform just the statistical sampling. If you're not creating dead tuples
with UPDATE, DELETE, or ROLLBACK, that might be enough most of the time.
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