Re: obsolete autovacuum comment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Álvaro Herrera
Subject Re: obsolete autovacuum comment
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Msg-id 202511121714.x6upacmxnfzm@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: obsolete autovacuum comment  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
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On 2025-Nov-12, David Rowley wrote:

> I've never been able to make sense of that comment. I tried to dig a
> bit yesterday and still couldn't make sense of it in the context of
> the commit when it was added.  I assume it's talking about
> pg_stat_all_tables.autovacuum_count, but I can't think why that
> matters as I didn't find any code that took that into account for
> triggering autovacuum.

It's not at all talking about autovacuum_count.  That field came in with
Postgres 9.1 in 2010, commit 946045f04d11, several years later.

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