On Tuesday May 23 2006 4:55 pm, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > Well, I did find one reason not to go ape with this: the > number of pages analyzed scales with the number of buckets, so > doubling the statistics target will roughly double the ANALYZE > time for any table over 6000 pages (though the effect isn't > linear, see below). There is a small increase in time for a > small table, but I doubt it's enough for anyone to care: Are you accounting for your well-primed OS and DB caches? I'd think a more realistic test would clear those of the target table between measurements. Ed
