On 2/26/15 5:23 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Semyon Reyfman wrote:
> 
>> When I create a table with "CREATE TABLE name AS SELECT." statement and
>> immediately afterward use this new table in a query does it make sense to
>> run ANALYZE on the table in between?  It appears that postgres should be
>> able to collect very detailed statistics while emitting the table but I am
>> not sure if this is done.
> 
> It isn't.  It also doesn't create any indexes, which you might want to
> do before analyze.

Is it necessary to create indexes before analyzing?

I usually do, just to be safe, but I thought statistics were based
solely on sampling of the heap.

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