Re: index bloat estimation

Keith Fiske wrote:

[dd]
>
> You cannot run the actual scan on the replica, no. But it can be set to run
> against the replica and just report the statistics so you can have a cron
> set up to always run on the given system in case of failover. The
> "--recovery_mode_norun" can be set so it will only run if the target system
> is actually a primary.
>
> I could possibly see about letting this actually run against the replica,
> however this can be a rather long running transaction depending on the size
> of the tables involved. You can set the "--commit_rate" to avoid some of
> that, but if you have really large tables, it can still run quite long. So
> this sort of check is really best run against the primary to avoid issues
> around having to allow long running queries on the replica (delayed
> replication or even worse bloat buildup).

If you have a dedicated replica for OLAP, even one running from a WAL
archive (not from a replication slot), this is not an issue.

So running pg_bloat_check against a replica would be very useful for
some of us.

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