Re: pg_stat_user_tables.n_mod_since_analyze persistence?

> On Feb 15, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> Philip Semanchuk <philip(at)americanefficient(dot)com> writes:
>> I saw some unexpected behavior that I'm trying to understand. I suspect it might be a quirk specific to AWS Aurora and I'd like to confirm that.
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>> When I restart my local Postgres instance (on my Mac), the values in pg_stat_user_tables.n_mod_since_analyze are preserved. In other words, if table foo had n_mod_since_analyze=33 before the reboot, it still has n_mod_since_analyze=33 after the restart.
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>> When I restart an AWS Aurora instance, the values in pg_stat_user_tables.n_mod_since_analyze all seem to be reset to 0.
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>> Can anyone confirm (or refute) that the behavior I see on my Mac (preservation of these values through a restart) is common & expected behavior?
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> Yeah, in PG those stats would be preserved, at least as long as it's
> a clean shutdown.

Thanks, Tom. A colleague pointed me to a blog post by Michael Vitale that confirms this bug on AWS and contains more detail:
https://elephas.io/685-2/

Hope this helps someone else
Philip