Re: (auto-)analyze causing bloat/load

On 2014-10-18 14:30:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Interestingly we already set PROC_IN_ANALYZE - but we never actually
> > look at it. I wonder what it'd take to ignore analyze in
> > GetSnapshotData()/GetOldestXmin()... At first sight it looks quite
> > doable to not have a snapshot around (or setup to be ignored) while
> > acquire_sample_rows() is running. As that's the expensive bit...
> 
> Say what?  How is ANALYZE supposed to know which rows are valid
> without a snapshot?

I haven't fully investigated it yet. But it's already not using it's own
snapshot to determine visibility. Instead it uses GetOldestXmin() +
HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum().

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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