Re: PG writes a lot to the disk

In response to "Laurent Raufaste" <analogue@glop.org>:

> 2008/3/21, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>:
> >
> > Well that's true it does. But only once per row. So analyze would have set the
> >  bit on every row. You could do the same thing with something ligter like
> >  "select count(*) from <table>".
>
> Well, the table has been analyzed, I did SELECT, PG write on the
> table. That's a fact.
>
> But it's also true (I juste tested it) that every file of a table is
> modified by a SELECT COUNT.

The real question (to verify Tom's point) is does a _second_ SELECT count()
modify the table again?  If so, then something else is going on than
what Tom suggested.

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