Re: [HACKERS] ANALYZE getting dead tuple count hopelessly wrong

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Stuart Brooks" <stuartb(at)cat(dot)co(dot)za>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ANALYZE getting dead tuple count hopelessly wrong
Date: 2008-04-04 05:40:35
Message-ID: 4355.1207287635@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I didn't think it merited back-patching. It's strictly cosmetic in
>> terms of being about what VACUUM VERBOSE prints, no?

> Umm.. Whatever we decide on the fix, I think we should backpatch it to
> 8.3 because I am worried that someone way get completely confused with
> the current vacuum report,

"Somebody might misread an optional report" doesn't seem to me to be on
the same risk level as "we might destabilize a stable release". The
policy of this project is that we only put nontrivial bug fixes into
back branches, and I don't think this item qualifies ...

regards, tom lane

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