On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 03:37:01PM +0000, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
> Good idea.  This patch looks good to me.

Thanks, I have pushed this one now.

> Without the find_all_inheritors() stuff, I think we would just need to
> modify the ANALYZE documentation patch to say something like
> 
>     Specifies that ANALYZE should not wait for any conflicting locks
>     to be released: if a relation cannot be locked immediately without
>     waiting, the relation is skipped.  Note that even with this
>     option, ANALYZE can still block when opening the relation's
>     indexes or when acquiring sample rows to prepare the statistics.
>     Also, while ANALYZE ordinarily processes all leaf partitions of
>     partitioned tables, this option will cause ANALYZE to skip all
>     leaf partitions if there is a conflicting lock on the partitioned
>     table.

Yes, I think that we could live with something like that.  I could give
this whole thing a shot, but this will have to wait until the commit
fest is closed as there are still many patches to classify.  If you can
send a patch that's of course always helpful..
--
Michael

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