Re: VACUUM FREEZE vs plain VACUUM

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thursday, July 17, 2025, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Does VACUUM FREEZE do something extra or special than to defer autovacuum
>> for an extra 50,000,000 transactions?
>>
>
> It effectively resets the pseudo-counter(s) that autovacuum uses to
> determine when next it should perform an aggressive scan. Or, put
> differently, it does exactly what autovacuum would do when the
> pseudo-counter(s) hit their thresholds. The act of doing that thing
> effectively resets said counters to zero at that moment (absent concurrent
> activity).
>

That seems to be what I said. Or am I still missing something?

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