Re: Track skipped tables during autovacuum and autoanalyze

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 12:12:35PM -0500, Sami Imseih wrote:
> I'm fine with adding timestamps, as there seem to be convincing
> reasons to add them.
> My other concern is bloat of the pg_stat_all_tables view. This patch
> adds 4 columns, or
> 8 if we also include manual vacuum and analyze (which I think we should).
>
> Given that, should we also start thinking about splitting the vacuum
> activity related
> columns into a dedicated view and out of pg_stat_all_tables for v20?

PgStat_StatTabEntry is shared between indexes and tables. A bunch of
its fields apply only to tables, not indexes (aka all the vacuum and
analyze ones). Few fields apply only to indexes, not tables. Not
that many are shared between both. I would advocate for a clean split
between indexes and tables, as a start, with a new variable-sized
stats kind dedicated to indexes.
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Michael