Re: auto-vacuum & Negative "anl" Values - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: auto-vacuum & Negative "anl" Values
Date
Msg-id 2266.1151001613@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to auto-vacuum & Negative "anl" Values  (Dylan Hansen <dhansen@pixpo.com>)
Responses Re: auto-vacuum & Negative "anl" Values
Re: auto-vacuum & Negative "anl" Values
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Dylan Hansen <dhansen@pixpo.com> writes:
> I have been spending some time looking into how auto-vacuum is
> performing on one of our servers.  After putting the PostgreSQL logs
> in debug I noticed that the threshold for ANALYZE was never being hit
> for a particular table because the calculated value becomes
> increasingly negative.

Hmm, it shouldn't ever be negative at all, I would think.  The
calculation in question is

    anltuples = tabentry->n_live_tuples + tabentry->n_dead_tuples -
        tabentry->last_anl_tuples;

Apparently somehow last_anl_tuples has managed to get to be bigger than
n_live_tuples, which maybe could happen after a delete.  Should we be
clamping last_anl_tuples to not exceed n_live_tuples somewhere?
Alvaro and Matthew, what do you think?

            regards, tom lane

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