On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This means that VACUUM ANALYZE must grab both locks ... is there a
> gotcha here?

Agreed.

> The main problem I see with this idea is that the dead and total tuple
> count computed by ANALYZE would be immediately out of date, and if it
> happens to finish after VACUUM then it'll overwrite the values the
> latter just wrote, which are more correct.  Not sure how serious a
> problem this is.

Agreed, but in the worst case, it's no different than running ANALYZE
immediately following a VACUUM.

-Jonah

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