On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 17:13, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: >> On tor, 2011-08-18 at 08:39 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> Also, unrelated to that, wouldn't this information be interesting for >>> non-autovacuum queries as well? >> >> Last year we were discussing some details on progress reporting, and >> some people suggested that instead of printing a single percentage, we >> should let each type of activity print out whatever metrics it has that >> would allow an experienced DBA to track the progress. Effectively, this >> is what this patch is trying to do. >> >> So how about adding a column to pg_stat_activity, progress_metrics or >> something like that, and add that information there. > > That might be a good way to go. I don't think we want something like > pg_stat_all_tables for this, because it seems that Greg's use case is > to be able to see how a *particular* autovacuum process is doing > *while it's running*, not to look at aggregate statistics over time. > Putting it in pg_stat_activity would be good for that.
It's also good to have it broken down into multiple columns, and not just a freetext column in the view - if tools should be able to parse it as well. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
