Re: another autovacuum scheduling thread

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 01:32:40PM +1300, David Rowley wrote:
> +1 for main patch first. I do think a view would be useful as a
> follow-up. However, which columns we put in that view might have some
> influence on how the current patch should look. I think the view
> should show the individual scores and the total score as the Max() of
> the individual scores. If we didn't do that, it might be confusing to
> the user which aspect of the score the final score is derived from.
> That might mean that it'd be better to have
> relation_needs_vacanalyze() output the scores individually, or perhaps
> populate a struct that we pass in that gets allocated on the stack
> during do_autovacuum(). That'd mean a bit less churn if we go with the
> view containing individual scores.

Agreed. Here's a first try at that. I also updated the DEBUG3 at the end
of relation_needs_vacanalyze() to show the individual scores. The comment
above that function might need some work, and we might need a bit of
additional commentary elsewhere.

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nathan