Re: [QUESTIONS] MySQL benchmark page

Nobody likes to take the time to move discussions, do they?  And ya, I'm
about as guilty *sigh*

Move to pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org...


On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:

> At 15:01 +0200 on 2/2/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> I think the garbage collection should be separated from the statistics.
> Garbage collection needs a write lock, statistics only a read lock. If they
> are not done at the same time, the various tables would be locked for
> shorter periods.

	Hrmmmm...good point, I think.  Bruce?  Vadim?  When vacuum'ng a
large table, how much time is spend 'garbage collecting' vs 'statistics'?
I thought that 'vacuum analyze' *was* the statistics aspect of it?  Where
just 'vacuum' was only garbage collection...?