On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM Zechman, Derek S <derek.s.zech...@snapon.com>
wrote:

>
>
> We recently performed an upgrade from pg14 (14.18) to pg16 (16.9) and
> performed the analyze-in-stages post upgrade.  It has been noticed that
> some plans changed to use hash joins instead of nested loops.  Further
> investigation found it was because the parent table of partitioned tables
> did not have stats.  After running an ANALYZE on the parent tables we got
> similar plan an execution times as before.
>
>
>
> I have two questions
>
> 1 - Why does analyze-in-stages not analyze the parent tables?
>
> 2 – What happens if we do not run analyze-in-stages post upgrade and just
> run an analyze?
>

It takes more time, and you don't have *any* statistics on a given table
until the ANALYZE on that table completes.

How long did "vacuumdb --analyze-only --jobs=$mumble your_db" take?

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