Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> wrote: > Daniel Farina <dan...@heroku.com> wrote: >> You probably are going to ask: "why not just run ANALYZE and be >> done with it?" > > Uhm yes. If analyze takes a long time then something is broken. > It's only reading a sample which should be pretty much a fixed > number of pages per table. It shouldn't take much longer on your > large database than on your smaller databases. On a small database: cc=# analyze "CaseHist"; ANALYZE Time: 255.107 ms cc=# select relpages, reltuples from pg_class where relname = 'CaseHist'; relpages | reltuples ----------+----------- 1264 | 94426 (1 row) Same table on a much larger database (and much more powerful hardware): cir=# analyze "CaseHist"; ANALYZE Time: 143450.467 ms cir=# select relpages, reltuples from pg_class where relname = 'CaseHist'; relpages | reltuples ----------+------------- 3588659 | 2.12391e+08 (1 row) Either way, there are about 500 tables in the database. -Kevin
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