Re: RFC: planner statistics in 7.2y

> (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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