Re: add PROCESS_MAIN to VACUUM

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 07:09:53PM +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

Here is an attempt at that. Thanks for the idea.

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