On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:37 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> +1 for removal. It's not clear to me that we'd ever put it back.
> Long-running ANALYZE snapshots are indeed a problem, but Simon's proposal
> upthread to just take a new one every so often seems like a much cleaner
> and simpler answer than having onlookers assume that it's safe to ignore
> ANALYZE processes. (Given that ANALYZE can invoke user-defined functions,
> and can be invoked from inside user transactions, any such assumption
> seems horribly dangerous.
Not to get too far from the proposal on the table of just removing
something that's been unused for a really long time, which stands on
its own merits, but if a particular ANALYZE doesn't invoke any
user-defined functions and isn't run inside a transaction, could we
skip acquiring a snapshot altogether? That's an extremely common case,
though by no means universal.
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