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When we added the ability for vacuum to skip heap pages by consulting the visibility map, we made it just not update the reltuples/relpages statistics if it skipped any pages. But this could leave us with extremely out-of-date stats for a table that contains any unchanging areas, especially for TOAST tables which never get processed by ANALYZE. In particular this could result in autovacuum making poor decisions about when to process the table, as in recent report from Florian Helmberger. And in general it's a bad idea to not update the stats at all. Instead, use the previous values of reltuples/relpages as an estimate of the tuple density in unvisited pages. This approach results in a "moving average" estimate of reltuples, which should converge to the correct value over multiple VACUUM and ANALYZE cycles even when individual measurements aren't very good. This new method for updating reltuples is used by both VACUUM and ANALYZE, with the result that we no longer need the grotty interconnections that caused ANALYZE to not update the stats depending on what had happened in the parent VACUUM command. Also, fix the logic for skipping all-visible pages during VACUUM so that it looks ahead rather than behind to decide what to do, as per a suggestion from Greg Stark. This eliminates useless scanning of all-visible pages at the start of the relation or just after a not-all-visible page. In particular, the first few pages of the relation will not be invariably included in the scanned pages, which seems to help in not overweighting them in the reltuples estimate. Back-patch to 8.4, where the visibility map was introduced. |
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