Re: Add mode column to pg_stat_progress_vacuum

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM Shinya Kato <shinya11.kato@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What about “started_by” ? it’s unambiguous and consistent with other columns
> > > like “query_start” in pg_stat_activity.
> >
> > "started_by" sounds reasonable to me.
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> Thanks all. I've updated the patches to use "started_by" and replaced
> remaining uses of "triggered" with "started".

Thank you for updating the patches!

I've attached a small change to simplify the 0001 patch. Please review it.

For the 0002 patch adding "started_by" column to
pg_stat_progress_analyze system view, while we can easily check that
the analyze operation reported in pg_stat_progress_analyze is started
manually or by autovacuum worker by joining it to pg_stat_activity on
the pid column, the proposed column would help users to check it even
easier. So +1.

Here are a few comments:

+        <listitem>
+         <para>
+          <literal>manual</literal>: The analyze was started by an explicit

For consistency with "started_by" in pg_stat_progress_vacuum, I think
it's better to start with "The operation was started by".

---
+          <command>ANALYZE</command> or <command>VACUUM (ANALYZE)</command>
+          command.

How about using "... or VACUUM with the ANALYZE option"?

Regards,

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