Re: PROC_IN_ANALYZE stillborn 13 years ago

On 2020-Aug-05, Andres Freund wrote:

> I'm mildly against that, because I'd really like to start making use of
> the flag. Not so much for cancellations, but to avoid the drastic impact
> analyze has on bloat.  In OLTP workloads with big tables, and without
> disabled cost limiting for analyze (or slow IO), the snapshot that
> analyze holds is often by far the transaction with the oldest xmin.

I pushed despite the objection because it seemed that downstream
discussion was largely favorable to the change, and there's a different
proposal to solve the bloat problem for analyze; and also:

> Only mildly against because it'd not be hard to reintroduce once we need
> it.

Thanks for the discussion!

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