Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I read this in the release notes:
> ---
> # Database-wide ANALYZE does not hold locks across tables (Tom)
> This reduces the potential for deadlocks against other backends that
> want exclusive locks on tables. To get the benefit of this change, do
> not execute database-wide ANALYZE inside a transaction block (BEGIN
> block); it must be able to commit and start a new transaction for each
> table.
> ---
> Does that mean that now if we used savepoints internally, analyze can
> still be run in a transaction and still not hold lots of locks?
No.
regards, tom lane
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