Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > Why? You can reconstruct it with a simple "ANALYZE" command. Dumping > > and restoring would mean nailing down cross-version assumptions about > > what it contains, which doesn't seem real forward-looking... > > I seem to recall that people like that kind of thing so that the dump is > really the current state of the database. > > Also, I believe big db's like DB2 and Oracle do such a thing. > > I just recall it being discussed some time ago...
I have heard of dumping stats so you are sure your production db has the same stats as your test database, but with ANALYZE so fast, and our optimizer so good, I don't see a use case for us. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
