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Re: [PATCH] Unremovable tuple monitoring

Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>

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From: Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Royce Ausburn <royce.ml@inomial.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>
Date: 2011-11-16T14:50:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2011-11-16 15:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com>  writes:
>> Not sure about the log line, but allowing pgstattuple to distinguish
>> between recently-dead and quite-thoroughly-dead seems useful.
> The dividing line is enormously unstable though.  pgstattuple's idea of
> RecentGlobalXmin could even be significantly different from that of a
> concurrently running VACUUM.  I can see the point of having VACUUM log
> what it did, but opinions from the peanut gallery aren't worth much.

I don't understand your the last remark so I want to get it clear: I 
looked up peanut gallery on the wiki. Is 'opinion from the peanut 
gallery' meant to describe my comments as patch reviewer? I'd appreciate 
brutal honesty on this point.

thanks
Yeb