Re: Autovacuum on partitioned table (autoanalyze)

On 2021-Aug-16, Álvaro Herrera wrote:

> Here's the reversal patch for the 14 branch.  (It applies cleanly to
> master, but the unused member of PgStat_StatTabEntry needs to be
> removed and catversion bumped).

I have pushed this to both branches.  (I did not remove the item from
the release notes in the 14 branch.)

It upsets me to have reverted it, but after spending so much time trying
to correct the problems, I believe it just wasn't salvageable within the
beta-period code freeze constraints.  I described the issues I ran into
in earlier messages; I think a good starting point to re-develop this is
to revert the reversal commit, then apply my patch at
https://postgr.es/m/0794d7ca-5183-486b-9c5e-6d434867cecd@www.fastmail.com
then do something about the remaining problems that were complained
about.  (Maybe: add an "ancestor OID" member to PgStat_StatTabEntry so
that the collector knows to propagate counts from children to ancestors
when the upd/ins/del counts are received.  However, consider developing
it as follow-up to Horiguchi-san's shmem pgstat rather than current
pgstat implementation.)

Thanks

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Álvaro Herrera              Valdivia, Chile  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/