Re: Revive num_dead_tuples column of pg_stat_progress_vacuum

On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 7:19 PM Andrey M. Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru> wrote:
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> > On 4 Jun 2024, at 00:26, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Thank you! Vacuum enhancement is a really good step forward, and this small change would help a lot of observability tools.
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> > On 4 Jun 2024, at 00:49, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
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> > Can we rename this to num_dead_item_ids (or something similar) in
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> I do not insist, but many tools will have to adapt to this change [0,1]. However, most of tools will have to deal with removed max_dead_tuples anyway [2], so this is not that big problem.

True, this incompatibility would not be a big problem.

num_dead_item_ids seems good to me. I've updated the patch that
incorporated the comment from Álvaro[1].

Regards,

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/202406041535.pmyty3ci4pfd%40alvherre.pgsql

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