Re: Introduce a new view for checkpointer related stats

From: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Introduce a new view for checkpointer related stats
Date: 2022-11-29 14:05:58
Message-ID: e101f7a1-ca1d-2f6c-6d9c-5273e7820f7b@gmail.com
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Hi,

On 11/28/22 6:58 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> I think we should consider deprecating the pg_stat_bgwriter columns but
>> leaving them in place for a few years. New stuff should only be added to
>> pg_stat_checkpointer, but we don't need to break old monitoring queries.
>
> I vote to just remove them. I think that most people won't update
> their queries until they are forced to do so. I don't think it
> matters very much when we force them to do that.
>
> Our track record in following through on deprecations is pretty bad
> too, which is another consideration.
>

Same point of view.

Regards,

--
Bertrand Drouvot
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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