Re: add PROCESS_MAIN to VACUUM

On 2023-Mar-01, Michael Paquier wrote:

> +-- PROCESS_MAIN option
> +VACUUM (PROCESS_MAIN FALSE) vactst;
> +VACUUM (PROCESS_MAIN FALSE, PROCESS_TOAST FALSE) vactst;
> +VACUUM (PROCESS_MAIN FALSE, FULL) vactst;
>
> Thinking a bit here. This set of tests does not make sure that the
> main relation and/or the toast relation have been actually processed.
> pg_stat_user_tables does not track what's happening on the toast
> relations. So... What about adding some tests in 100_vacuumdb.pl
> that rely on vacuumdb --verbose and check the logs produced? We
> should make sure that the toast or the main relation are processed,
> by tracking, for example, logs like vacuuming "schema.table". When
> FULL is involved, we may want to track the changes on relfilenodes
> depending on what's wanted.

Maybe instead of reading the log, read values from pg_stat_all_tables.

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