Re: Add index scan progress to pg_stat_progress_vacuum

From: "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih(at)amazon(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Add index scan progress to pg_stat_progress_vacuum
Date: 2022-04-05 18:45:09
Message-ID: 35855EFB-80FC-4AA3-81A3-2C2DD458A91C@amazon.com
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> Can't the progress data trivially be inferred by the fact that the worker
> completed?

Yes, at some point, this idea was experimented with in
0004-Expose-progress-for-the-vacuuming-indexes-cleanup-ph.patch.
This patch did the calculation in system_views.sql

However, the view is complex and there could be some edge
cases with inferring the values that lead to wrong values being reported.

Regards,

Sami Imseih
Amazon Web Services

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