Re: a fast bloat measurement tool (was Re: Measuring relation free space)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2015-05-13T01:04:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2015-05-12 00:42:14 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2015-05-11 19:15:47 +0200, andres@anarazel.de wrote:
> > I don't really care how it's named, as long as it makes clear that
> > it's not an exact measurement.
> 
> Not having heard any better suggestions, I picked "pgstatapprox" as a
> compromise between length and familiarity/consistency with pgstattuple.

I can live with that, although I'd personally go with
pgstattuple_approx()...

Other than that and some minor local changes I've made, I'm ready to
commit this.

Greetings,

Andres Freund