On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:33:57AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 15:56 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:50:05PM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 16:23 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to document when partition table statistics helps?
> > >
> > > I think it would be difficult to come up with an exhaustive list.
> >
> > I was afraid of that. I asked only because most people assume
> > autovacuum handles _all_ statistics needs, but this case is not handled.
> > Do people even have any statistics maintenance process anymore, and if
> > not, how would they know they need to run a manual ANALYZE?
>
> Probably not. I think this would warrant an entry in the TODO list:
> "make autovacuum collect startistics for partitioned tables".
We have it already:
Have autoanalyze of parent tables occur when child tables are modified
> Even if we cannot give better advice than "run ALANYZE manually if
> the execution plan looks fishy", the patch is still an improvement,
> isn't it?
Yes.
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