Re: pgsql: Improve autovacuum logging for aggressive and anti-wraparound ru

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, sk(at)zsrv(dot)org, nasbyj(at)amazon(dot)com, andres(at)anarazel(dot)de, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Improve autovacuum logging for aggressive and anti-wraparound ru
Date: 2019-03-29 14:03:49
Message-ID: 20190329140349.GI1954@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 09:11:47AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> +                (errmsg_internal("found vacuum to prevent wraparound of
> table \"%s.%s.%s\" to be not aggressive, so skipping",
>
> This might convey something to hackers, but I doubt it will convey much
> to regular users. Perhaps something like "skipping redundant
> anti-wraparound vacuum of table ..." would be better.

"skipping redundant" is much better.

> The comment is also a bit too tentative. Perhaps something like this
> would do:
>
> Normally the relfrozenxid for an anti-wraparound vacuum will be old
> enough to force an aggressive vacuum. However, a concurrent vacuum
> might have already done this work that the relfroxzenxid in relcache
> has been updated. If that happens this vacuum is redundant, so skip it.

That works for me.
--
Michael

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