Re: pg_upgrade and statistics

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Cc: Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-13T18:52:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 05:46:06PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
> > You probably are going to ask: "why not just run ANALYZE and be done
> > with it?"
> 
> Uhm yes. If analyze takes a long time then something is broken. It's
> only reading a sample which should be pretty much a fixed number of
> pages per table. It shouldn't take much longer on your large database
> than on your smaller databases.
> 
> Perhaps you're running vacuum analyze by mistake?

pg_upgrade recommends running this command:

	vacuumdb --all --analyze-only

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