Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:34:28PM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
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>
>>The reason why I came up with this posting is slightly different: Assume
>>a JDBC application which works with PostgreSQL + some other database. If
>>you want to use both databases without PostgreSQL being unnecessarily
>>slow an implicit mechanism would be better. Because otherwise you will
>>have an SQL command in there which is off standard - putting a switch
>>into the application seems to be a fairly ugly solution.
>
>
> That's why you delegate the job to something else, like pg_autovacuum or
> cron ...
>
If you are in the middle of a data mining application using a tmp table
you don't want to wait for cron ;). You might want the statistics to be
correct as soon as the table has been created.
Regards, Hans
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