Re: BUG #5932: CLUSTER doesn't update n_dead_tup

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andy Lester <andy(at)petdance(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5932: CLUSTER doesn't update n_dead_tup
Date: 2011-09-06 14:04:42
Message-ID: 201109061404.p86E4gH16362@momjian.us
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Andy Lester wrote:
>
> On Sep 5, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > This is an interesting bug report from March that got no replies. In my
> > testing, not only does CLUSTER not update the n_dead_tup statistics, but
> > neither does VACUUM FULL, which internally uses the CLUSTER code
> > (cluster_rel()). Is this a bug?
>
> I can't imagine how it NOT be a bug to do something that gets rid of dead tuples and then tell the user there are dead tuples when there are actually no dead tuples.

Well, if you TRUNCATE I don't think it updates the statistics either. I
think we assume the autovacuum system will analyse the new table soon.

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