VACUUM ANALYZE: Always update pg_class.reltuples.
vacuumlazy.c sometimes fails to update pg_class entries for each index (to ensure that pg_class.reltuples is current), even though analyze.c assumed that that must have happened during VACUUM ANALYZE. There are at least a couple of reasons for this. For example, vacuumlazy.c could fail to update pg_class when the index AM indicated that its statistics are merely an estimate, per the contract for amvacuumcleanup() routines established by commit e5734597 back in 2006. Stop assuming that pg_class must have been updated with accurate statistics within VACUUM ANALYZE -- update pg_class for indexes at the same time as the table relation in all cases. That way VACUUM ANALYZE will never fail to keep pg_class.reltuples reasonably accurate. The only downside of this approach (compared to the old approach) is that it might inaccurately set pg_class.reltuples for indexes whose heap relation ends up with the same inaccurate value anyway. This doesn't seem too bad. We already consistently called vac_update_relstats() (to update pg_class) for the heap/table relation twice during any VACUUM ANALYZE -- once in vacuumlazy.c, and once in analyze.c. We now make sure that we call vac_update_relstats() at least once (though often twice) for each index. This is follow up work to commit 9f3665fb, which dealt with issues in btvacuumcleanup(). Technically this fixes an unrelated issue, though. btvacuumcleanup() no longer provides an accurate num_index_tuples value following commit 9f3665fb (when there was no btbulkdelete() call during the VACUUM operation in question), but hashvacuumcleanup() has worked in the same way for many years now. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzknxdComjhqo4SUxVFk_Q1171GJO2ZgHZ1Y6pion6u8rA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 13-, just like commit 9f3665fb.
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