Re: Vacuum statistics

On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM Alena Rybakina
<a(dot)rybakina(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
> On 12.05.2025 08:30, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM Alena Rybakina <a(dot)rybakina(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
> >> I did a rebase and finished the part with storing statistics separately from the relation statistics - now it is possible to disable the collection of statistics for relationsh using gucs and
> >> this allows us to solve the problem with the memory consumed.
> >>
> > I think this patch is trying to collect data similar to what we do for
> > pg_stat_statements for SQL statements. So, can't we follow a similar
> > idea such that these additional statistics will be collected once some
> > external module like pg_stat_statements is enabled? That module should
> > be responsible for accumulating and resetting the data, so we won't
> > have this memory consumption issue.
> The idea is good, it will require one hook for the pgstat_report_vacuum
> function, the extvac_stats_start and extvac_stats_end functions can be
> run if the extension is loaded, so as not to add more hooks.

+1
Nice idea of a hook. Given the volume of the patch, it might be a
good idea to keep this as an extension.

> But I see a problem here with tracking deleted objects for which
> statistics are no longer needed. There are two solutions to this and I
> don't like both of them, to be honest.
> The first way is to add a background process that will go through the
> table with saved statistics and check whether the relation or the
> database are relevant now or not and if not, then
> delete the vacuum statistics information for it. This may be
> resource-intensive. The second way is to add hooks for deleting the
> database and relationships (functions dropdb, index_drop,
> heap_drop_with_catalog).

Can we workaround this with object_access_hook?

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov
Supabase