Re: vacuumdb clarification

[Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>]

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2009-11-13 at 14:49 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Here is a documentation patch I have applied to clarify that --analyze
> > does analyze during vacuum, not instead of vacuum.
> 
> I don't see this committed, but I would vote against it, because the
> wording makes it sound like the statistics are for use by the optimizer
> during vacuum.

I agree with your analysis.  I have applied a simpler wording
improvement that just adds the word "Also".

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Index: doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml,v
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diff -c -c -r1.44 vacuumdb.sgml
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--- doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml	27 Nov 2009 17:40:12 -0000
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*** 159,165 ****
        <term><option>--analyze</option></term>
        <listitem>
         <para>
!         Calculate statistics for use by the optimizer.
         </para>
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
--- 159,165 ----
        <term><option>--analyze</option></term>
        <listitem>
         <para>
!         Also calculate statistics for use by the optimizer.
         </para>
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>