Re: pgsql: Update guidance for running vacuumdb after pg_upgrade.

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
Cc: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Update guidance for running vacuumdb after pg_upgrade.
Date: 2025-04-22 21:29:21
Message-ID: aAgKMavWTlgjWkar@nathan
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 11:03:29PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Nathan Bossart
>> In any case, IMO it's unfortunate
>> that we might end up recommending roughly the same post-upgrade steps as
>> before even though the optimizer statistics are carried over.
>
> Maybe the docs (and the pg_upgrade scripts) should recommend the old
> procedure by default until this gap is closed? People could then still
> opt to use the new procedure in specific cases.

I think we'd still want to modify the --analyze-in-stages recommendation
(from what is currently recommended for supported versions). If we don't,
you'll wipe out the optimizer stats you brought over from the old version.

Here is a rough draft of what I am thinking.

--
nathan

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