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Update vacuum to mention analyze
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml,v 1.7 1999/12/07 22:41:41 momjian Exp $
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml,v 1.8 2000/04/05 21:51:11 momjian Exp $
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Postgres documentation
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<para>
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Updates column statistics used by the optimizer to
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determine the most efficient way to execute a query.
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The statistics represent the disbursion of the data in each column.
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This information is valuable when several execution paths are possible.
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tuples and number of pages stored in all classes.
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<para>
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<command>VACUUM ANALYZE</command> collects statistics representing the
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disbursion of the data in each column.
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This information is valuable when several query execution paths are possible.
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</para>
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Running <command>VACUUM</command>
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periodically will increase the speed of the database in processing user queries.
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query may be executed at any time, however. In particular, after
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copying a large class into <productname>Postgres</productname>
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or after deleting a large number of
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records, it may be a good idea to issue a <command>VACUUM</command>
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records, it may be a good idea to issue a <command>VACUUM ANALYZE</command>
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query. This will update the system catalogs with the results of all
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recent changes, and allow the <productname>Postgres</productname>
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query optimizer to make better choices in planning user queries.
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