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Re: Documentation clarification re: ANALYZE

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

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From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-07T21:31:45Z
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On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:14 PM Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm looking at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-analyze.html,
> where it says “Without a table_and_columns list, ANALYZE processes every
> table and materialized view in the current database that the current user
> has permission to analyze.”.
>
> I don’t believe there is a separate “analyze” permission, so which tables
> is this? Tables owned by the user? Ones where it can insert/update/delete?
> Ones where it can select?
>

Owners only - at least in previous releases.  I don't recall whether the
addition of new roles to cover subsets of administrative privileges ever
was extended to cover vacuum/analyze but I do not think it has.

David J.

Commits

  1. Doc: document permissions required for ANALYZE.