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From: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
To: Bertrand Drouvot <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Track the amount of time waiting due to cost_delay
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:20:16 -0500
Message-ID: <ZmdR8NLjxsrUnsnx@nathan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 05:48:22PM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 10:36:42AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> I wonder if we should also
>> surface the effective cost limit for each autovacuum worker.
> 
> I'm not sure about it as I think that it could be misleading: one could query
> pg_stat_progress_vacuum and conclude that the time_delayed he is seeing is
> due to _this_ cost_limit. But that's not necessary true as the cost_limit could
> have changed multiple times since the vacuum started. So, unless there is
> frequent sampling on pg_stat_progress_vacuum, displaying the time_delayed and
> the cost_limit could be misleadind IMHO.

Well, that's true for the delay, too, right (at least as of commit
7d71d3d)?

-- 
nathan






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