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diff --git a/src/backend/commands/cluster.c b/src/backend/commands/cluster.c
index 10ec32c05de..ff228b7d531 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/cluster.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/cluster.c
@@ -1398,6 +1398,12 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
* advantage to the other order anyway because this is all transactional,
* so no chance to reclaim disk space before commit. We do not need a
* final CommandCounterIncrement() because reindex_relation does it.
+ *
+ * Note: because index_build is called via reindex_relation, it will never
+ * set indcheckxmin true for the indexes. This is OK even though in some
+ * sense we are building new indexes rather than rebuilding existing ones,
+ * because the new heap won't contain any HOT chains at all, let alone
+ * broken ones, so it can't be necessary to set indcheckxmin.
*/
reindex_flags = REINDEX_REL_SUPPRESS_INDEX_USE;
if (check_constraints)