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PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
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PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

by Gregory Smith
October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
11h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Autoanalyze

While technically a part of the same autovacuum daemon, the autoanalyze logic works a bit differently. The server keeps an internal count of how many tuples (rows) were in each table the last time it was analyzed. It then adds the estimated counts it keeps for live and dead tuples in the database (the ones you can see in pg_stat_user_tables) and triggers when these numbers drift too far. While regular autovacuum only cares about rows that are dead because of UPDATE, DELETE, and ROLLBACK, autoanalyze also counts tables that have expanded through simple INSERT additions too.

By the time you've made it through the much more difficult to set up and monitor autovacuum work on your server, the similar but simpler autoanalyze work should be ...

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ISBN: 9781849510301