Re: Report the number of skipped frozen pages by manual VACUUM

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Jim Nasby <jim(dot)nasby(at)openscg(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Report the number of skipped frozen pages by manual VACUUM
Date: 2017-03-22 19:28:29
Message-ID: CAHGQGwEuHY1F7MzbtwvhRoy4UnnE2X1VtZus562OAPawsYJ14Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Yugo Nagata <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:08:42 +0900
>> Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Jim Nasby <jim(dot)nasby(at)openscg(dot)com> wrote:
>>> > On 3/6/17 8:34 PM, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I don't think it can say "1 frozen pages" because the number of
>>> >> skipped pages according to visibility map is always more than 32
>>> >> (SKIP_PAGES_THRESHOLD).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > That's just an artifact of how the VM currently works. I'm not a fan of
>>> > cross dependencies like that unless there's a pretty good reason.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the comment.
>>> Agreed. Attached fixed version patch.
>>
>> It seems that it says "frozen pages" if pinskipped_pages is not zero,
>> rather than about frozenskipped_pages.
>>
>> How about writing as below?
>>
>> appendStringInfo(&buf, ngettext("Skipped %u page due to buffer pins, "
>> "Skipped %u pages due to buffer pins, ",
>> vacrelstats->pinskipped_pages),
>> vacrelstats->pinskipped_pages);
>> appendStringInfo(&buf, ngettext("%u frozen page.\n", "%u frozen pages.\n",
>> vacrelstats->frozenskipped_pages),
>> vacrelstats->frozenskipped_pages);
>>
>
> Yeah, you're right. I've attached the updated version patch
> incorporated your comment and fixing documentation.

The patch looks very simple and good to me.
Barring objection, I will commit this.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao

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