Excerpts from Chris Browne's message of jue jun 03 16:21:35 -0400 2010:
> What this offers is *SOME* idea of how much updating work a particular
> transaction did. It's a bit worse than you suggest:
>
> - If replication triggers have captured tuples, those would get
> counted.
>
> - TOAST updates might lead to extra updates being counted.
>
> But back to where you started, I'd anticipate 7 inserts, 7 deletes,
> and 7 updates being counted as something around 21 updates.
>
> And if that included 5 TOAST changes, it might bump up to 26.
>
> If there were replication triggers in place, that might bump the count
> up to 45 (which I chose arbitrarily).
Why not send separate numbers of tuple inserts/updates/deletes, which we
already have from pgstats?
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