Re: Introduce a new view for checkpointer related stats

Hi,

On 11/28/22 6:58 PM, 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.  I don't think it
> matters very much when we force them to do that.
> 
> Our track record in following through on deprecations is pretty bad
> too, which is another consideration.
> 

Same point of view.

Regards,

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