Re: Add index scan progress to pg_stat_progress_vacuum

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 09:30:57PM +0000, Imseih (AWS), Sami wrote:
> Attached v4 which includes accounting for the hash size on startup, removal of the no longer needed comment in pgstatfuncs.c and a change in both code/docs to only reset the indexes_total to 0 when failsafe is triggered.

Thanks for the new patch set.

+/*
+ * Structs for tracking shared Progress information
+ * amongst worker ( and leader ) processes of a vacuum.
+ */

nitpick: Can we remove the extra spaces in the parentheses?

+    if (entry != NULL)
+        values[PGSTAT_NUM_PROGRESS_COMMON + PROGRESS_VACUUM_INDEXES_COMPLETED] = entry->indexes_processed;

What does it mean if there isn't an entry in the map?  Is this actually
expected, or should we ERROR instead?

+    /* vacuum worker progress hash table */
+    max_table_size = GetMaxBackends();
+    size = add_size(size, hash_estimate_size(max_table_size,
+                                             sizeof(VacProgressEntry)));

I think the number of entries should be shared between
VacuumWorkerProgressShmemInit() and VacuumWorkerProgressShmemSize().
Otherwise, we might update one and not the other.

+        /* Call the command specific function to override datum values */
+        if (pg_strcasecmp(cmd, "VACUUM") == 0)
+            set_vaccum_worker_progress(values);

I think we should elaborate a bit more in this comment.  It's difficult to
follow what this is doing without referencing the comment above
set_vacuum_worker_progress().

IMO the patches are in decent shape, and this should likely be marked as
ready-for-committer in the near future.  Before doing so, I think we should
check that Sawada-san is okay with moving the deeper infrastructure changes
to a separate threaḋ.

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Nathan Bossart
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