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Re: Add mode column to pg_stat_progress_vacuum

Shinya Kato <shinya11.kato@gmail.com> — 2025-11-20T06:23:32Z

On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The patch looks overall good to me. I have a few comments:

Thank you for your review!

> 1/ I believe It is possible for the mode to flip to "failsafe" during the
> operation since lazy_check_wraparound_failsafe() is checked in-flight.
> I think this should be mentioned in the "mode" section of the documentation
> in the "failsafe" description.

+1, I've added the below statement to the v7 patch.
---
The vacuum may start in this mode or switch to it while running; the
value of the mode column may transition from another mode to failsafe
during the operation.
---

> 2/ It feels odd that we do not have parity of the "mode" column in
> pg_stat_progress_analyze. Should we add a "mode" column
> there also that shows if the analyze was triggered_by "manual" or
> "autovacuum"? An autovacuum in a relation can trigger both
> a vacuum and an analyze, and a VACUUM(ANALYZE) will
> also do both.

Thank you for your suggestions. I've created another patch v7-0002
adding a "triggered_by" column to pg_stat_progress_analyze.

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Best regards,
Shinya Kato
NTT OSS Center