Avoid having vacuum set reltuples to 0 on non-empty relations in the presence of page pins, which leads to serious estimation errors in the planner. This particularly affects small heavily-accessed tables, especially where locking (e.g. from FK constraints) forces frequent vacuums for mxid cleanup.
Fix by keeping separate track of pages whose live tuples were actually counted vs. pages that were only scanned for freezing purposes. Thus, reltuples can only be set to 0 if all pages of the relation were actually counted. Backpatch to all supported versions. Per bug #14057 from Nicolas Baccelli, analyzed by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160331103739.8956.94...@wrigleys.postgresql.org Branch ------ REL9_2_STABLE Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a494ff4b012b5ce89b2549d5dab6b66604083bf0 Modified Files -------------- src/backend/commands/vacuumlazy.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list (pgsql-committers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers