On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> Untrue, vacuum is *extremely* important for updating statistics.
> If you have a lot of data in a table, and you have never vacuumed, you
> might as well not have any indices. It'd be nice if you could seperate
> the stat update from the storage reclaim. Actually, it'd be nice if you
> could reuse storage, so that an actual vacuum wouldn't be necessary unless
> you just wanted to free up disk space you might end up using again anyway.
Okay, my understanding is that a vacuum does a 'cleanup', while a vacuum
analyze does a cleanup *and* stats...
************
