Re: Is analyze_new_cluster.sh still useful?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christoph Berg <christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is analyze_new_cluster.sh still useful?
Date: 2014-06-18 16:56:20
Message-ID: 20140618165620.GO3115@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-06-18 12:51:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another angle is that some folks might have tried to automate things
> even more, with a wrapper script that starts up the new postmaster
> and runs analyze_new_cluster.sh all by itself. I guess they could
> make the wrapper do "vacuumdb --all --analyze-in-stages" directly,
> though, so maybe that's not a fatal objection either.

Wouldn't that be quite counterproductive? The reason we don't normally
do that and why --analyze-in-stages exists is that the cluster should be
started up as fast as possible. Restarting it after ANALYZE went through
would be defeating that purpose, no?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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