On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know how the transactionality of analyze works. I was
> surprised to find that I even could run it in an explicit transaction
> block, I thought it would behave like vacuum and create index
> concurrently in that regard.
>
> However, I think that that would not solve your problem. When I run
> analyze on each of 220,000 tiny tables by name within one session
> (using autocommit, so each in a transaction), it does run about 4
> times faster than just doing a database-wide vacuum which covers those
> same tables. (Maybe this is the lock/resource manager issue that has
> been fixed for 9.3?)
For the record, the culprit that causes "analyze;" of a database with
a large number of small objects to be quadratic in time is
"get_tabstat_entry" and it is not fixed for 9.3.
Cheers,
Jeff