On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote:
> LOG:  automatic vacuum of table "postgres.public.foo": index scans: 0
>         pages: 0 removed, 7256 remain, 0 pinned
>         tuples: 79415 removed, 513156 remain, 0 are dead but not yet
> removable
>         buffer usage: 14532 hits, 6 misses, 6241 dirtied
>         avg read rate: 0.003 MB/s, avg write rate: 3.413 MB/s
>         system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.30u sec elapsed 14.28 sec
>
> I.e. this just says how many pages were pinned, without saying what was done
> about them. That's not very meaningful to an average DBA, but that's true
> for many of the numbers printed in vacuum verbose.

That message is extremely confusing, to my eyes.  If you want to say
"pages: 0 removed, 7256 remain, 0 skipped due to pins", that would
work for me, but just say "0 pinned" is totally wrong, because vacuum
pinned every page in the table.

-- 
Robert Haas
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