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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Cc: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Cc: satyanarlapuram@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: tndrwang@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Add pg_stat_autovacuum_priority
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 16:19:57 -0500
Message-ID: <adbGfTMw8BiHDMnM@nathan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3101163.1775676098@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 03:21:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
>> FWIW that elog() shouldn't be emitting anything from the view, unless
>> something is broken.
> 
> [ looks again... ]  Oh, you mean because pg_stat_get_autovacuum_scores
> passes 0 for elevel instead of any of the valid elevel constants.
> Can you say "undocumented cowboy hack"?  I'd be happier if we added
> something like "#define LOG_NEVER 0  /* Never emit this message */"
> to elog.h and used that.

Yeah... I should've done that originally.  Here's a patch that I'll apply
in the next day or so, barring objections.

-- 
nathan
From 1ce7c01b3e7f594749c4f5edb6e9c14729337779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 16:19:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] add LOG_NEVER

---
 src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c | 3 ++-
 src/include/utils/elog.h            | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
index bd626a16363..f9fa874b79f 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
@@ -3676,7 +3676,8 @@ pg_stat_get_autovacuum_scores(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 
 		avopts = extract_autovac_opts(tup, RelationGetDescr(rel));
 		relation_needs_vacanalyze(form->oid, avopts, form,
-								  effective_multixact_freeze_max_age, 0,
+								  effective_multixact_freeze_max_age,
+								  LOG_NEVER,
 								  &dovacuum, &doanalyze, &wraparound,
 								  &scores);
 		if (avopts)
diff --git a/src/include/utils/elog.h b/src/include/utils/elog.h
index 440a02dd147..9c1e75c59ac 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/elog.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/elog.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct Node;
 
 
 /* Error level codes */
+#define LOG_NEVER	0			/* Never emit this message */
 #define DEBUG5		10			/* Debugging messages, in categories of
 								 * decreasing detail. */
 #define DEBUG4		11
-- 
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)

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  [text/plain] 0001-add-LOG_NEVER.patch (1.3K, ../adbGfTMw8BiHDMnM@nathan/2-0001-add-LOG_NEVER.patch)
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From 1ce7c01b3e7f594749c4f5edb6e9c14729337779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 16:19:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] add LOG_NEVER

---
 src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c | 3 ++-
 src/include/utils/elog.h            | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
index bd626a16363..f9fa874b79f 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
@@ -3676,7 +3676,8 @@ pg_stat_get_autovacuum_scores(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 
 		avopts = extract_autovac_opts(tup, RelationGetDescr(rel));
 		relation_needs_vacanalyze(form->oid, avopts, form,
-								  effective_multixact_freeze_max_age, 0,
+								  effective_multixact_freeze_max_age,
+								  LOG_NEVER,
 								  &dovacuum, &doanalyze, &wraparound,
 								  &scores);
 		if (avopts)
diff --git a/src/include/utils/elog.h b/src/include/utils/elog.h
index 440a02dd147..9c1e75c59ac 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/elog.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/elog.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct Node;
 
 
 /* Error level codes */
+#define LOG_NEVER	0			/* Never emit this message */
 #define DEBUG5		10			/* Debugging messages, in categories of
 								 * decreasing detail. */
 #define DEBUG4		11
-- 
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)

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