On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 6:01 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-11-28 12:58:48 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > > I think we should consider deprecating the pg_stat_bgwriter columns but
> > > leaving them in place for a few years. New stuff should only be added to
> > > pg_stat_checkpointer, but we don't need to break old monitoring queries.
> >
> > I vote to just remove them. I think that most people won't update
> > their queries until they are forced to do so.
>
> Seems most agree with that... WFM.
Thanks. I'm attaching the v2 patch from upthread again here as we all
agree to remove checkpointer columns from pg_stat_bgwriter view and
have them in the new view pg_stat_checkpointer.
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