Re: Pgstattuple on Sequences: Seeking Community Feedback on Potential Patch

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

Cc: Ayush Vatsa <ayushvatsa1810@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, michael@paquier.xyz

Date: 2024-08-30T20:07:30Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 1:36 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.  Robert, do you have any concerns with this?

I don't know if I'm exactly concerned but I don't understand what
problem we're solving, either. I thought Ayush said that the function
wouldn't produce useful results for sequences; so then why do we need
to change the code to enable it?

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

Fix contrib/pageinspect's test for sequences.
- ef46a73f6941 13.17 landed
- e0277d90acf6 12.21 landed
- a63aef5e496c 15.9 landed
- 9b3c3c0fc206 17.0 landed
- 70d1c664f437 18.0 landed
- 0970889e352c 14.14 landed
- 0938a4ecda33 16.5 landed
Reintroduce support for sequences in pgstattuple and pageinspect.
- e03042a7003d 15.9 landed
- dd5670fa549e 12.21 landed
- ca902529cc0f 13.17 landed
- 8a94af8a2d0f 14.14 landed
- 6ea7f04b7366 17.0 landed
- 2bd4c06bba8c 16.5 landed
- 05036a3155c1 18.0 landed
Only allow heap in a number of contrib modules.
- 4b82664156c2 12.0 cited