Thread: Autovacuum and pg_stat_reset()

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Hello

We are playing around with different statistics provided by postgresql
to get a better overview of our systems.

Until postgresql 8.2, and the presence of
'stats_reset_on_server_start=on' + pg_postmaster_start_time(), we could
calculate very easy many average values/sec. for our statistics.

With 8.3 and later, it is not possible to do this anymore. But we are
thinking that if we run pg_stat_reset() when the postgres server is
startet we could achieve the same.

Our question is:

Does the use of pg_stat_reset() affects the statistics autovacuum uses
to find out what to do and when this should be done? Can the use of
pg_stat_reset() affect performance in any way?

regards,
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 Rafael Martinez, <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>
 Center for Information Technology Services
 University of Oslo, Norway

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Rafael Martinez wrote:

> Does the use of pg_stat_reset() affects the statistics autovacuum uses
> to find out what to do and when this should be done?

Yes.  You should do a manual ANALYZE after resetting stats to keep
autovacuum in sync with reality.  (In principle ANALYZE is only
concerned with updating the unrelated stats in pg_statistic, but it also
sends dead/live tuple counts to pgstats which autovacuum relies on.)

> Can the use of pg_stat_reset() affect performance in any way?

Hmm, not sure.

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