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Commit 32ea2363 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Improve the IndexVacuumInfo/IndexBulkDeleteResult API to allow somewhat sane

behavior in cases where we don't know the heap tuple count accurately; in
particular partial vacuum, but this also makes the API a bit more useful
for ANALYZE.  This patch adds "estimated_count" flags to both structs so
that an approximate count can be flagged as such, and adjusts the logic
so that approximate counts are not used for updating pg_class.reltuples.

This fixes my previous complaint that VACUUM was putting ridiculous values
into pg_class.reltuples for indexes.  The actual impact of that bug is
limited, because the planner only pays attention to reltuples for an index
if the index is partial; which probably explains why beta testers hadn't
noticed a degradation in plan quality from it.  But it needs to be fixed.

The whole thing is a bit messy and should be redesigned in future, because
reltuples now has the potential to drift quite far away from reality when
a long period elapses with no non-partial vacuums.  But this is as good as
it's going to get for 8.4.
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