On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had to reply to query about usage VACUUM ANALYZE or ANALYZE. I
> expected so ANALYZE should be faster then VACUUM ANALYZE.
>
> But is not true. Why?
I'm pretty sure that VACUUM ANALYZE *will* be faster than ANALYZE in
general, because VACUUM has to scan the whole table, and ANALYZE only
a fixed-size subset of its pages. Not sure what's happening in your
particular case...
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