Re: pgsql: autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables

On 2021-Apr-09, Robert Haas wrote:

> Does this need to worry about new partitions getting attached to a
> partitioned table, or old ones getting detached? (Maybe it does
> already, not sure.)

I was pinged because this is listed as an open item.  I don't think it
is one.  Handling ATTACH/DETACH/DROP is important for overall
consistency, of course, so we should do it eventually, but the fact that
autovacuum runs analyze *at all* for partitioned tables is an enormous
step forward from it not doing so.  I think we should treat ATTACH/
DETACH/DROP handling as a further feature to be added in a future
release, not an open item to be fixed in the current one.

Now, if somebody sees a very trivial way to handle it, let's discuss it,
but *I* don't see it.

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