pgsql: autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-04-08T05:20:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables

Previously, autovacuum would completely ignore partitioned tables, which
is not good regarding analyze -- failing to analyze those tables means
poor plans may be chosen.  Make autovacuum aware of those tables by
propagating "changes since analyze" counts from the leaf partitions up
the partitioning hierarchy.

This also introduces necessary reloptions support for partitioned tables
(autovacuum_enabled, autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor,
autovacuum_analyze_threshold).  It's unclear how best to document this
aspect.

Author: Yuzuko Hosoya <yuzukohosoya@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKkQ508_PwVgwJyBY=0Lmkz90j8CmWNPUxgHvCUwGhMrouz6UA@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0827e8af70f4653ba17ed773f123a60eadd9f9c9

Modified Files
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src/backend/access/common/reloptions.c |  15 +++--
src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql   |   4 +-
src/backend/commands/analyze.c         |  40 ++++++++----
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c    | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c        | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
src/include/pgstat.h                   |  25 +++++++-
src/test/regress/expected/rules.out    |   4 +-
7 files changed, 257 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Commits

  1. Describe (auto-)analyze behavior for partitioned tables

  2. Add comment about extract_autovac_opts not holding lock

  3. Set pg_class.reltuples for partitioned tables

  4. autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables