On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Either one of those approaches would cripple our freedom to change those > data structures; which we've done repeatedly in the past and will surely > want to do again. So I'm pretty much -1 on exposing them.
We could instead add a view of this information to core -- pg_stat_autovacuum, or whatever. But to be honest, I'm more in favor of Guillaume's proposal. I will repeat my recent assertion that we -- you in particular -- are too reluctant to expose internal data structures to authors of C extensions, and that this is developer-hostile. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
