Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Apparently somehow last_anl_tuples has managed to get to be bigger than
>> n_live_tuples, which maybe could happen after a delete.  Should we be
>> clamping last_anl_tuples to not exceed n_live_tuples somewhere?
>> Alvaro and Matthew, what do you think?

> Hmm ... I'd think that the number of dead tuples plus live tuples should
> never be smaller than the number of tuples seen at last analyze.

The scenario I was imagining was big delete followed by
VACUUM-without-ANALYZE.  In this situation, it looks to me like
pgstat_recv_vacuum updates n_live_tuples to the new smaller value
and doesn't do anything to last_anl_tuples.  I'm thinking we need

        tabentry->n_live_tuples = msg->m_tuples;
        tabentry->n_dead_tuples = 0;
        if (msg->m_analyze)
        {
                tabentry->last_anl_tuples = msg->m_tuples;
                if (msg->m_autovacuum)
                        tabentry->autovac_analyze_timestamp = msg->m_vacuumtime;
                else
                        tabentry->analyze_timestamp = msg->m_vacuumtime;
        }
+       else
+       {
+               /* last_anl_tuples must never exceed n_live_tuples */
+               tabentry->last_anl_tuples = Min(tabentry->last_anl_tuples,
+                                               msg->m_tuples);
+       }
}

but perhaps I'm confused.

                        regards, tom lane

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