On 2/13/20 10:04 AM, Jason Ralph wrote:
Well table bloat and table statistics are two different things. Bloat is the 
accumulation of dead or potentially dead tuples whose space has not been marked 
> as available for reuse by VACUUM or whose space has been returned to the OS 
with VACUUM FULL.  For more information see:

Thanks for the helpful response @Adrian Klaver,
Let me try to rephrase my question,
If a table has bloat before the upgrade, autvacuum was not aggressive enough, 
once pg_upgrade is complete, the same table will contain the same amount of 
bloat(dead tuples)?  Meaning its not the same as pg_dump / pg_restore since 
it’s a hard link to the previous data location.  Pg_upgrade with link will not 
recreate the table.

Yes pg_upgrade is a transfer of the binary data(sort of) whereas pg_dump/restore is a logical transfer. So pg_upgrade via copy/clone/link will not recreate user tables. For a good overview see IMPLEMENTATION file in src:

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/bin/pg_upgrade/IMPLEMENTATION;h=69fcd70a7c526d9f27b43a49f71e9b591a6b889f;hb=HEAD7


Jason Ralph


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