On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 04:45:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Euler Taveira <eu...@timbira.com.br> wrote:
> 
>     On 16-06-2016 09:05, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>     > Shouldn't pg_upgrade turn off vacuum cost delay when it vacuums the new
>     > cluster? Not talking about the post-analyze script, but when it runs
>     > vacuumdb to analyze and freeze before loading the new schema, in
>     > prepare_new_cluster()? Those run during downtime, so it seems like you'd
>     > want those to run as fast as possible.
>     >
>     Doesn't --new-options do the job?
> 
> 
> You could, but it seems like it should do it by default. 

Based on this seven year old post, I realized there are minimal
directions in pg_upgrade docs about how to generate statistics quickly,
so I created this patch to help.

We do have docs on updating planner statistics:

        
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-STATISTICS

but that doesn't seem to cover cases where you are doing an upgrade or
pg_dump restore.  Should I move this information into there instead?

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
  EDB                                      https://enterprisedb.com

  Only you can decide what is important to you.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
index 4f78e0e1c0..c72e69bb67 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
@@ -784,6 +784,14 @@ psql --username=postgres --file=script.sql postgres
      of the upgrade.  You might need to set connection parameters to
      match your new cluster.
     </para>
+
+    <para>
+     Using <command>vacuumdb --all --analyze-only</command> can efficiently
+     generate such statistics, and the use of <option>--jobs</option>
+     can speed it up.  Option <option>--analyze-in-stages</option> can
+     be used to generate minimal statistics quickly.  Non-zero values of
+     <varname>vacuum_cost_delay</varname> will delay statistics generation.
+    </para>
    </step>
 
    <step>

Reply via email to