Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Bruce asked me to look for places in the docs that mention that an
> > ANALYZE is recommended, to mention the possibility that autovacuum takes
> > care. This patch does that.
>
> I think you found the right places to touch, but is "let the autovacuum
> daemon do it" sufficient? It seems like that needs some qualifiers
> about whether autovacuum is enabled, how long you should expect to wait
> for the stats to get updated, etc. It's probably not a good idea to
> duplicate all that in each place, but maybe a link to the main
> documentation about autovacuum is reasonable in each place.
Sorry this fell through the cracks. How does this look? My idea would
be to backpatch it to 8.3 and 8.4.
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