diff --git a/nextcloud_mcp_server/app.py b/nextcloud_mcp_server/app.py
index 6f8f0ecc..76b5a07d 100644
--- a/nextcloud_mcp_server/app.py
+++ b/nextcloud_mcp_server/app.py
@@ -1748,6 +1748,8 @@ def get_app(transport: str = "streamable-http", enabled_apps: list[str] | None =
                 # Publish outstanding-work + corpus gauges on a fixed cadence,
                 # independent of the consumer path and queue backend (fixes the
                 # gauge reading 0 on the multi-user path; see metrics_publisher).
+                # receive_stream is None in postgres mode — get_ingest_pending
+                # falls back to the procrastinate job counts there.
                 await tg.start(
                     vector_sync_metrics_task,
                     task_producer,
@@ -1989,6 +1991,8 @@ def get_app(transport: str = "streamable-http", enabled_apps: list[str] | None =
                     # oauth_processor_task, which never updated the queue gauge,
                     # so without this the gauge read 0 while the buffer held
                     # thousands of pending docs (see metrics_publisher).
+                    # receive_stream is None in postgres mode — get_ingest_pending
+                    # falls back to the procrastinate job counts there.
                     await tg.start(
                         vector_sync_metrics_task,
                         task_producer,
diff --git a/tests/unit/vector/test_metrics_publisher.py b/tests/unit/vector/test_metrics_publisher.py
index 77ad7ddf..c533fcda 100644
--- a/tests/unit/vector/test_metrics_publisher.py
+++ b/tests/unit/vector/test_metrics_publisher.py
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ class TestCountIndexed:
 
         assert all(call.kwargs["exact"] is False for call in qc.count.await_args_list)
 
+    async def test_default_is_exact_true(self) -> None:
+        # The on-demand status endpoint relies on the exact=True default.
+        qc = AsyncMock()
+        qc.count.side_effect = [_count_obj(10), _count_obj(3)]
+
+        await mp.count_indexed(qc, _COLLECTION)
+
+        assert all(call.kwargs["exact"] is True for call in qc.count.await_args_list)
+
 
 class TestPublishVectorSyncMetrics:
     @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
diff --git a/third_party/astrolabe b/third_party/astrolabe
index 8a26b8d9..54adb28f 160000
--- a/third_party/astrolabe
+++ b/third_party/astrolabe
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 8a26b8d9bf42649488aab29f220cde8d3764cf2c
+Subproject commit 54adb28f1d10ac5c143ca28e853d4289fdd0a69b