Re: Add pg_stat_autovacuum_priority

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Sami Imseih <samimseih(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: 2026-04-09 00:57:23
Message-ID: adb5c_x34Gn94BXk@nathan
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 05:59:36PM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2026-04-08 16:23:45 -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> What's interesting is that I cannot reproduce similar usage with views like
>> pg_stat_all_tables.
>
> Hm? That would be very surprising. Is it possible you used LIMIT 1 or such?
> The way the pg_stat_all_tables view works it only accesses stats data for
> returned rows (because it does all the stats lookups with individiual columns,
> which also makes it really slow, but avoids having to form datums for not
> returned columns).

*facepalm*

I was using count(*). If I do something like sum(n_dead_tup), I see much
more memory used by pg_stat_all_tables. Sorry for the noise.

--
nathan

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