Re: Add pg_stat_kind_info system view

> > But also, because this will be used to calculate consumption, we
> > should add a note in
> > the documentation to differentiate between live storage usage vs the
> > DSA footprint,
> > which will not be shrunk when entries are deleted. Someone may be confused
> > that their entries are much lower after deleting entries, but their memory
> > footprint is still high because the OS does not reclaim the free'd space.
> > What do you think?
>
> Hmm. I am not completely sure which way is best here. So, I think
> that I am just going to drop this field for now (entry_size as of
> latest patch), and keep the rest of the patch. It's still useful to
> me, and we could always add one or more memory-related field later as
> we feel in this release cycle.

Right. I also think this needs more discussion, and it should not hold
up everything else.

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Sami