Doc: Clarify the role of aggressive VACUUMs.
authorPeter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Sat, 2 Apr 2022 19:29:35 +0000 (12:29 -0700)
committerPeter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Sat, 2 Apr 2022 19:29:35 +0000 (12:29 -0700)
commitf7e4d5c64fb3977e3a773e7213472be1b59dab2f
tree7f5c34101772af925ff8c8ebf9605f49fcccb61e
parent1b208ebaf14e668a24c78ee42cf805431cd0f591
Doc: Clarify the role of aggressive VACUUMs.

Adjust the documentation's coverage of aggressive VACUUMs to make it
clearer that aggressive vacuuming isn't always strictly necessary.  It's
possible for non-aggressive VACUUMs to advance relfrozenxid/relminmxid
without fail, given the right workload conditions.

While this has always been true, it matters more with recent and pending
improvements to VACUUM.  These improvements make non-aggressive
vacuuming more likely to advance relfrozenxid/relminmxid in practice.
While this is an unrelated improvement to the docs, formally speaking,
it still doesn't seem worth backpatching.  So don't backpatch.
doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml