diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
index 4f78e0e1c0b..2520f6c50dd 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgupgrade.sgml
@@ -784,6 +784,17 @@ psql --username=postgres --file=script.sql postgres
      of the upgrade.  You might need to set connection parameters to
      match your new cluster.
     </para>
+
+    <para>
+     Using <command>vacuumdb --all --analyze-only</command> can efficiently
+     generate such statistics, and the use of <option>--jobs</option>
+     can speed it up.  Option <option>--analyze-in-stages</option>
+     can be used to generate minimal statistics quickly.
+     If <varname>vacuum_cost_delay</varname> is set to a non-zero
+     value, this can be overridden to speed up statistics generation
+     using <envar>PGOPTIONS</envar>, e.g., <literal>PGOPTIONS='-c
+     vacuum_cost_delay=0' vacuumdb ...</literal>.
+    </para>
    </step>
 
    <step>