Re: Inconsistent use of relpages = -1

On Fri, 2024-10-18 at 15:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> If we are going to put data into reltuples but not relpages,
> I think I agree with setting relpages to -1 to signify
> "unknown" (analogously to -1 for reltuples).  Otherwise it
> looks like the table has infinite tuple density, which is
> likely to bollix something somewhere.

That's a good point.

I attached a patch that creates partitioned tables with relpages=-1,
and updates the docs.

It's awkward to cast back and forth between BlockNumber and int32, so I
updated the signature of vac_update_relstats() as well.

Regards,
Jeff Davis