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diff --git a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c
index 91591da3958..4a4b69891d3 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/activity/pgstat_shmem.c
@@ -855,6 +855,17 @@ pgstat_drop_database_and_contents(Oid dboid)
pgstat_request_entry_refs_gc();
}
+/*
+ * Drop a single stats entry.
+ *
+ * This routine returns false if the stats entry of the dropped object could
+ * not be freed, true otherwise.
+ *
+ * The callers of this function should call pgstat_request_entry_refs_gc()
+ * if the stats entry could not be freed, to ensure that this entry's memory
+ * can be reclaimed later by a different backend calling
+ * pgstat_gc_entry_refs().
+ */
bool
pgstat_drop_entry(PgStat_Kind kind, Oid dboid, Oid objoid)
{