Re: Introduce a new view for checkpointer related stats

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.

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