"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It looks like there's no trivial way to get ANALYZE to do things that >> way, though. heap_release_fetch() doesn't distinguish a DEAD line >> pointer from an unused or redirected one. But in the current >> implementation of ANALYZE there's really no benefit to using >> heap_release_fetch anyway --- it always examines all line pointers >> on each selected page, so we might as well rewrite it to use a simple >> loop more like vacuum uses. > I agree. I would write a patch on these lines, unless you are already on to it. Please do --- I have a lot of other stuff on my plate. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general