Re: pgsql: autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pgsql: autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables
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Msg-id 20210409221659.GA28298@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: pgsql: autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables  (Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>)
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On 2021-Apr-09, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> One data point: we do DETACH/ATTACH tables during normal operation, before
> type-promoting ALTERs, to avoid worst-case disk use, and to avoid locking the
> table for a long time.  It'd be undesirable (but maybe of no great consequence)
> to trigger an ALTER when we DETACH them, since we'll re-ATTACH it shortly
> afterwards.

You mean to trigger an ANALYZE, not to trigger an ALTER, right?

I think I agree with Tomas: we should do it by default, and offer some
way to turn that off.  I suppose a new reloptions, solely for
partitioned tables, would be the way to do it.

> However, I think DROP should be handled ?

DROP of a partition? ... I would think it should do the same as DETACH,
right?  Inform that however many rows the partition had, are now changed
in ancestors.

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