Re: Autovacuum/Analyze Doesn't seem to be running properly - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Chris Kim
Subject Re: Autovacuum/Analyze Doesn't seem to be running properly
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Msg-id CAAEyfN4Qf_W+wao=wbT63xt59eex6GdhHths9_S0gLYUxpzs5w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Autovacuum/Analyze Doesn't seem to be running properly  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Thanks anyone for your help. This has helped me better understand autoanalyze.
Thanks,
Chris

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 1:53 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On 2020-Mar-04, Chris Kim wrote:

> In my testing it looks like pg_stat_reset was ran, but I haven't been able
> to verify this from my logs.
>
> Is there another way the stats could get reset?

Yes, a crash/restart does that.

> Does autovacuum use the stats from pg_stat_user_table meaning if there 50
> live tuples and 1000 dead tuples, but then the stats are reset, those dead
> tuples would never get cleaned up until there was new activity on that
> table?

That's correct.

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