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[Change] Explain per-chunk nature of autovacuum #679

@ClaytonJY

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@ClaytonJY

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I think it would be helpful to add something about how autovacuum works with hypertables: if you look up last_autovacuum/last_autoanalyze in pg_stat_user_tables for a Timescale hypertable, they are always null. This is because the autovacuum daemon operates on a per-chunk basis, so those fields are populated for chunks (schemaname = '_timescaledb_internal').

This is quite minor, but it may save someone else some digging in the future!

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