> (1) The statistics-gathering process should be available as a standalone
> command, ANALYZE [ tablename ], not only as part of VACUUM. (This was
> already discussed and agreed to for 7.1, but it never got done.) Note
> that a pure ANALYZE command needs only a read lock on the target table,
> not an exclusive lock as VACUUM needs, so it's much more friendly to
> concurrent transactions.
7.1 already does the ANALYZE part of VACUUM ANALYZE with lighter
locking. I just never split out the command to be separate, partly
because of fear of user confusion, and I ran out of time.
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