Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] MySQL benchmark page

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-02-03T19:30:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > This is correct.  Vacuum is fast, vacuum analyze is pretty slow.  We
> > > could separate them, I guess, and that would eliminate the write-lock
> > > and be only a readlock.
> > 
> > 	Possible to slip it in for v6.3?  Would make it so that an analyze
> > could be done nightly, to keep statistics up, and then a vacuum once a
> > week or so just for garbage collection...?
> 
> When I added analyze, I did not understand the issues, so I was able to
> work from Vadim's code in vacuum.  I put it on the TODO list.  Don't
> know if it can make 6.3.  I am working on cleaning up the cacheoffset
> code right now.

	Okay...personally, I'm finding 'vacuum <table>' an acceptable work
around, so it isn't too big of a priority :)