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Re: Add pg_stat_autovacuum_priority

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>, satyanarlapuram@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, tndrwang@gmail.com
Date: 2026-04-09T01:02:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 06:51:59PM -0500, Sami Imseih wrote:
> I went ahead and implemented Andres's idea of will_free. Callers of
> pgstat_fetch_entry can either pass a NULL to a will_free parameter,
> or a bool. Callers that pass the bool can check if will_free is true and
> can choose to free the entry.

Yeah, I think this is the right thing to do.  IMHO "may_free" is slightly
more accurate here, since we're telling the caller that they can explicitly
pfree() the result instead of letting the pgstat machinery or their own
memory context take care of it.

+	/*
+	 * When pgstat_fetch_consistency is PGSTAT_FETCH_CONSISTENCY_NONE, callers
+	 * will be responsible for freeing the entry.
+	 */
+	if (will_free)
+		*will_free = (pgstat_fetch_consistency == PGSTAT_FETCH_CONSISTENCY_NONE);

I don't know if this is a strict project guideline, but when I add these
sorts of function parameters I usually just require the caller to provide a
non-NULL pointer.  But... what you have here seems fine, too.

-- 
nathan

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  1. Fix double-free in pg_stat_autovacuum_scores.

  2. Add LOG_NEVER error level code.

  3. Add pg_stat_autovacuum_scores system view.

  4. Remove recheck_relation_needs_vacanalyze().

  5. Add elevel parameter to relation_needs_vacanalyze().

  6. Teach relation_needs_vacanalyze() to always compute scores.

  7. Refactor relation_needs_vacanalyze().

  8. Add rudimentary table prioritization to autovacuum.

  9. Fix per-relation memory leakage in autovacuum.

  10. Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularly