analyze anomalie

[Uwe Bartels <uwe(dot)bartels(at)gmail(dot)com>]

Hi,

today i found an anomalie running
analyze verbose <table>

the output was simply "ANALYZE", which tells me that analyze was running
successfully. but there was no verbose output. and in the statistics table
was no updated last_analyze column.

I run that automaticly in the background or manually in a psql session or
via pgAdmin. Everywhere the same.

Then I run a "vacuum analysze verbose" and then I see the verbose output for
the analyze and of course the vacuum. And now the last_analyze column in
pg_statistics is updated.

So what's problem here? Why is this analyze only apppearing to run, but
doesn't?

Our postgres is 8.3 64 bit in solaris x86.

best regards,
Uwe