Palle Girgensohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No surprise. vacuum analyze produces an exact total row count, whereas >> analyze can only produce an approximate total row count (since it only >> samples the table rather than groveling over every row). Sometimes the >> approximate count will be far enough off to affect the estimates.
> Reasonable. Thanks for clarifying that. In the normal case, vacuum analyze > is better, I guess? If you intend to do both steps, the combined command is definitely better than issuing them separately. I wouldn't say that you need to do the combined command in situations where you'd otherwise do just one. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])