"Pavan Deolasee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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