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authorNathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>2025-03-18 16:32:56 -0500
committerNathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>2025-03-18 16:32:56 -0500
commitc9d502eb68094d817fe94c2e954f6fdbb62f4d48 (patch)
tree8677ddfbef8a90a709c1d7a0140800b21cca6db8
parentedba754f052ea0c02287080004aa6051eaa4f597 (diff)
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Update guidance for running vacuumdb after pg_upgrade.
Now that pg_upgrade can carry over most optimizer statistics, we should recommend using vacuumdb's new --missing-stats-only option to only analyze relations that are missing statistics. Reviewed-by: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z5O1bpcwDrMgyrYy%40nathan
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml9
-rw-r--r--src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
index 9ef7a84eed0..5db761d1ff1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
@@ -807,10 +807,11 @@ psql --username=postgres --file=script.sql postgres
</para>
<para>
- Using <command>vacuumdb --all --analyze-only</command> can efficiently
- generate such statistics, and the use of <option>--jobs</option>
- can speed it up. Option <option>--analyze-in-stages</option>
- can be used to generate minimal statistics quickly.
+ Using <command>vacuumdb --all --analyze-only --missing-stats-only</command>
+ can efficiently generate such statistics. Alternatively,
+ <command>vacuumdb --all --analyze-in-stages --missing-stats-only</command>
+ can be used to generate minimal statistics quickly. For either command,
+ the use of <option>--jobs</option> can speed it up.
If <varname>vacuum_cost_delay</varname> is set to a non-zero
value, this can be overridden to speed up statistics generation
using <envar>PGOPTIONS</envar>, e.g., <literal>PGOPTIONS='-c
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c b/src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c
index d32fc3d88ec..88daa808035 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ output_completion_banner(char *deletion_script_file_name)
pg_log(PG_REPORT,
"Some optimizer statistics may not have been transferred by pg_upgrade.\n"
"Once you start the new server, consider running:\n"
- " %s/vacuumdb %s--all --analyze-in-stages", new_cluster.bindir, user_specification.data);
+ " %s/vacuumdb %s--all --analyze-in-stages --missing-stats-only", new_cluster.bindir, user_specification.data);
if (deletion_script_file_name)
pg_log(PG_REPORT,