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Walter Vaughan wrote:
> Francisco Reyes wrote:
> 
> >Walter Vaughan writes:
> >>I am not even sure this is a problem.
> >>INFO:  "data_import_customer2": scanned 3000 of 5033 pages, containing 
> >>84905 live rows and 0 dead rows; 3000 rows in sample, 142442 estimated 
> >>total rows
> >
> >I don't believe it is a problem.
> >I think it is just normal output of the vacuum.
> >What made you think there could be a problem? 
> 
> Well, why did it only scan 3000 pages out of 5033? It decided it didn't 
> need to? It took a sample and decided it was gonna be okay?

These lines are for the ANALYZE step.  It doesn't need to scan all the
pages.  It picks 3000 at random for computing stats.  The VACUUM step
(which happens before ANALYZE) does walk all pages.

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