Re: Add pg_stat_autovacuum_priority

From: Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, satyanarlapuram(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, tndrwang(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: Add pg_stat_autovacuum_priority
Date: 2026-04-08 19:35:29
Message-ID: CAA5RZ0uOENy8Y+UNXpcGvFFHhT_oxYPqa-o0Jv1rOriC6w8VSg@mail.gmail.com
Views: Whole Thread | Raw Message | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

> > This sounds most similar to the "bool *may_free" idea that Andres just
> > posted. IIUC the idea is that callers can free the result if they want,
> > but they aren't required to do so.
>
> Hmm, yeah I suppose a caller that doesn't care about leakage could
> skip the pfree. But are there really any of those? The complaint
> that prompted 02502c1bc concerned databases with many many thousands
> of relations.
>
> I now realize that what you said upthread about caching the results
> might be a bigger problem, ie if the pgstats code does retain all
> these values then we'd have a memory bloat problem there. Maybe
> we need a more aggressive API change that includes a way to specify
> "don't cache this result".

hmm, do you mean an API to override the pgstat_fetch_consistency GUC?

--
Sami

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Andres Freund 2026-04-08 19:44:02 Re: Reduce timing overhead of EXPLAIN ANALYZE using rdtsc?
Previous Message Lukas Fittl 2026-04-08 19:25:54 Re: Reduce timing overhead of EXPLAIN ANALYZE using rdtsc?