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Documentation clarification re: ANALYZE

Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>

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From: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-07T21:14:04Z
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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?

If somebody can tell me, I'll make it a weekend project to propose a
specific update to the documentation to make this more clear. Or maybe
there should just be a cross-reference to another existing part of the
documentation that explains more about this.

Commits

  1. Doc: document permissions required for ANALYZE.