Re: [PROPOSAL] VACUUM Progress Checker.

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] VACUUM Progress Checker.
Date: 2015-07-24 22:41:41
Message-ID: 55B2BF25.9010201@agliodbs.com
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On 07/24/2015 11:06 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 7/23/15 5:18 AM, Thakur, Sameer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>> >logged > 25 times
>> Sorry, it is much lower at 7 times. Does not change overall point though
>
> I think it's related to the problem of figuring out how many dead tuples
> you expect to find in the overall heap, which you need to do to have any
> hope of this being a comprehensive estimate.

What about just reporting scanned pages/total pages ? That would be
easy and cheap to track. It would result in some herky-jerky
"progress", but would still be an improvement over the feedback we don't
have now.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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