Re: Design of pg_stat_subscription_workers vs pgstats

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Design of pg_stat_subscription_workers vs pgstats
Date: 2022-02-24 12:23:55
Message-ID: ca9f44f0-a553-2f57-8017-d0ad84e06a6a@enterprisedb.com
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On 24.02.22 12:46, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
>> We have a view called pg_stat_activity, which is very well known. From
>> that perspective, "activity" means what is happening right now or what
>> has happened most recently. The reworked view in this patch does not
>> contain that (we already have pg_stat_subscription for that), but it
>> contains accumulated counters.
> Right.
>
> What pg_stat_subscription shows is rather suitable for the name
> pg_stat_subscription_activity than the reworked view. But switching
> these names would also not be a good idea. I think it's better to use
> "subscription" in the view name since it shows actually statistics for
> subscriptions and subscription OID is the key. I personally prefer
> pg_stat_subscription_counters among the ideas that have been proposed
> so far, but I'd like to hear opinions and votes.

_counters will fail if there is something not a counter (such as
last-timestamp-of-something).

Earlier, pg_stat_subscription_stats was mentioned, which doesn't have
that problem.

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