tuning autovacuum

Hi,

There are some releases that autovacuum was enabled by default and, up to now 
there is an easy way to estimate the number of autovacuum workers. I tune it 
observing if the number of slots are saturated for a period of time. I'm 
having a hard time trying to do this. I want to add a LOG message such as

LOG: maximum number of autovacuum workers reached
HINT: Consider increasing autovacuum_max_workers (currently 5).

And also a view (say pg_stat_autovacuum) to expose some autovacuum information 
such as (i) number of autovacuum workers (ii) number of tables that needs 
analyze/vacuum and are scheduled to (iii) number of autovacuum count (iv) 
number of autoanalyze count. While I am in this topic, it would be nice to 
expose the analyze/vacuum count and threshold per table. This information 
should go to pg_stat_*_tables but it already has too much fields. Maybe it is 
time to split autovacuum information into another statistic view?

Comments?


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