Re: [Proposal] More Vacuum Statistics

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Naoya Anzai <nao-anzai(at)xc(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Akio Iwaasa <aki-iwaasa(at)vt(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, "bench(dot)coffee(at)gmail(dot)com" <bench(dot)coffee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [Proposal] More Vacuum Statistics
Date: 2015-05-30 03:58:27
Message-ID: 20150530035827.GR5885@postgresql.org
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Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-05-29 21:30:57 -0500, Jim Nasby wrote:
> > It occurs to me that there's no good reason for vacuum-derived stats to be
> > in the stats file; it's not like users run vacuum anywhere near as often as
> > other commands. It's stats could be kept in pg_class; we're already keeping
> > things like relallvisible there.
>
> While it might be viable to store them somewhere but the stat files, I
> don't think pg_class is a good place. Its size is not any less critical
> than the stats files. I.e. reading it sits in several rather hot paths,
> and we keep tuples from it in memory in a lot of places.

Greg Smith had this idea about "timing events",
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/50A4BC4E.4030007%402ndQuadrant.com
Sounds like this thread is related.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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