I think Sydney meant 800ft above the traffic pattern of a non-towered field.

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Snowbird wrote:


but because the controller needs to understand that *if he is
going to vector IFR traffic 800 ft above a non-towered airport,


There's no vectoring going on 800 feet above an uncontrolled field. The
MVA is always at least 1000 agl.