Re: Revive num_dead_tuples column of pg_stat_progress_vacuum

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 10:22 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 7:19 PM Andrey M. Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
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> > > On 4 Jun 2024, at 00:26, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thank you! Vacuum enhancement is a really good step forward, and this small change would help a lot of observability tools.
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> > > On 4 Jun 2024, at 00:49, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
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> > > Can we rename this to num_dead_item_ids (or something similar) in
> > > passing?
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> > I do not insist, but many tools will have to adapt to this change [0,1]. However, most of tools will have to deal with removed max_dead_tuples anyway [2], so this is not that big problem.
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> True, this incompatibility would not be a big problem.
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> num_dead_item_ids seems good to me. I've updated the patch that
> incorporated the comment from Álvaro[1].

I'm going to push the v2 patch in a few days if there is no further comment.

Regards,

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