Обсуждение: proposal: integration bloat tables (indexes) to core

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are lot of useful queries (views), that are on our wiki. Some queries
> are necessary for maintenance, and I am thinking these queries should be
> integrated part of Postgres.
>
> Mainly queries for detecting table bloat, index bloat, But some queries over
> pg_locks should be useful too.
>
> Notes, comments?

It's likely to be hard to get agreement on which things to include.
But if we can, it might be worth doing.  It would be nice to do it as
an extension.

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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are lot of useful queries (views), that are on our wiki. Some queries
>> are necessary for maintenance, and I am thinking these queries should be
>> integrated part of Postgres.

> It's likely to be hard to get agreement on which things to include.
> But if we can, it might be worth doing.  It would be nice to do it as
> an extension.

The problem with an extension is: when we make a core change that breaks
one of these views, which we will, how can you pg_upgrade a database
with the extension installed?  There's no provision for upgrading an
extension concurrently with the core upgrade.  Maybe there should be,
but I'm unclear how we could make that work.

At the same time, I'm pretty suspicious of putting stuff like this in
core, because the expectations for cross-version compatibility go up
by orders of magnitude as soon as we do that.
        regards, tom lane

On 6/13/16 12:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> At the same time, I'm pretty suspicious of putting stuff like this in
> core, because the expectations for cross-version compatibility go up
> by orders of magnitude as soon as we do that.

On a first go-round, I don't think we should add entire views, but 
rather functions that serve specific purposes. For table bloat that 
means a function that returns what the heap size should be based on 
pg_stats. For locking, it means providing information about which PID is 
blocking which PID. After that, most everything else is just window 
dressing.
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On 16/06/16 20:31, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 6/13/16 12:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> At the same time, I'm pretty suspicious of putting stuff like this in
>> core, because the expectations for cross-version compatibility go up
>> by orders of magnitude as soon as we do that.
> 
> On a first go-round, I don't think we should add entire views, but
> rather functions that serve specific purposes. For table bloat that
> means a function that returns what the heap size should be based on
> pg_stats. For locking, it means providing information about which PID is
> blocking which PID. After that, most everything else is just window
> dressing.

We already have that second one: pg_blocking_pids(integer)
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Tom Lane-2 wrote
> The problem with an extension is: when we make a core change that breaks
> one of these views, which we will, how can you pg_upgrade a database
> with the extension installed?  There's no provision for upgrading an
> extension concurrently with the core upgrade.  Maybe there should be,
> but I'm unclear how we could make that work.
> 
> At the same time, I'm pretty suspicious of putting stuff like this in
> core, because the expectations for cross-version compatibility go up
> by orders of magnitude as soon as we do that.

Why not provide a "SQL" or "Admin Scripts" directory as part of the
installation that contains community "recommended" scripts for things like
that? As those aren't extensions or somehow part of the data directory they
don't need to be migrated and pg_upgrade does not need to take care of that. 

When installing a new version, the new scripts that work with the new
version are installed automatically but will not overwrite the old version's
scripts as the new version typically is stored in a different directory. 





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