Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2009-11-13 at 14:49 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Here is a documentation patch I have applied to clarify that --analyze
> > does analyze during vacuum, not instead of vacuum.
>
> I don't see this committed, but I would vote against it, because the
> wording makes it sound like the statistics are for use by the optimizer
> during vacuum.
I agree with your analysis. I have applied a simpler wording
improvement that just adds the word "Also".
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Index: doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml
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diff -c -c -r1.44 vacuumdb.sgml
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--- doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml 27 Nov 2009 17:40:12 -0000
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*** 159,165 ****
<term><option>--analyze</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
! Calculate statistics for use by the optimizer.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
--- 159,165 ----
<term><option>--analyze</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
! Also calculate statistics for use by the optimizer.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>