Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Couldn't you just sort by the table names, and ANALYZE the tables in > that order? Would that effectively prevent the deadlocks?
That'd work too, I think (I suggested the variant of ordering by OID, which is simpler and more reliable). Not sure if it's really worth the trouble though --- how many people do you think are doing concurrent whole-database ANALYZEs inside transaction blocks? As-is the code will do the analyzes in pg_class physical row order, which is almost good enough --- only if someone did a schema change that forced a pg_class row update between the starts of the two ANALYZE runs would it possibly fail. So the use-case for a fix is really kinda narrow. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend